Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD): new insights into this not-so-rare condition

Sharonne N Hayes, Sharonne N Hayes

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Keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; angioplasty, balloon, coronary; coronary artery dissection, spontaneous/etiology/epidemiology; female; fibromuscular dysplasia; myocardial infarction; rupture, spontaneous; sex factors.

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Fig. 1.

Coronary angiogram shows A) spontaneous dissection of the left circumflex coronary artery in a 40-year-old woman who presented with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. During an attempt at percutaneous intervention in the same patient, we saw B) extension of the left circumflex dissection into the left main and left anterior descending coronary arteries.

Fig. 2.

Fibromuscular dysplasia was incidentally noted in the right iliac artery during coronary angiography in a patient with myocardial infarction caused by spontaneous coronary artery dissection.