Angiography subsequently demonstrated that the patient had a diffuse lesion of the LAD, the nature of ... lesion was either a spiral dissection or a prolonged coronary vasospasm.

A coronary artery dissection occurs when there is injury to the intima resulting in its separation from the media creating a false lumen. This can result in hemodynamically significant stenosis ...

and the left coronary artery, which divides into the circumflex artery and the left anterior descending artery (LAD). Blood clots in the coronary arteries, including the LAD, usually develop due ...

The right coronary artery can also be involved causing an inferior myocardial infarction. Rupture of the ascending aortic dissection into the pericardium can cause a rapid pericardial effusion ...

The 3D CT data set can be evaluated by various post-processing techniques. Multiplanar reconstructions allow visualization of any cross-section through the volume. Oblique as well as curved cross ...