Coronary angiography revealed diffuse narrowing of the left anterior descending artery and tapering of the left main trunk, but there were no obvious hallmarks of intimal dissection ...

Mum-of-three Mary McFarland's heart attack at work in October 2024 had followed from a SCAD (spontaneous coronary artery dissection ... The angiogram confirmed Mary had a tear in her left anterior ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has emerged over the last decade as an increasingly recognised cause of ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a cause of acute coronary syndrome that predominantly affects women. Its pathophysiology remains unclear but connective tissue disorders (CTD) and ...

or a serious condition known as spontaneous coronary artery dissection, which means a sudden tear in the wall of a coronary artery. In any of these cases, it means that the heart is not getting ...

Clinical presentation and procedural variables drive the choice of the initial therapeutic approach in spontaneous coronary artery dissection. If PCI is needed, it seems to be associated with a ...

Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

According to the lawsuit, she suffered a "right vertebral artery dissection" — which can mean a tear in one of the major arteries that run along the back of the neck near the spine — as a ...