February 28, 2012 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) — Doctors in a Canadian hospital say spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) in young women under the age of 50 is not as rare as ...

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) is an increasingly recognised cause of heart attacks in younger women. Often ...

Background Hypothyroidism has been suggested as a predisposing and prognostic factor in patients with spontaneous coronary ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic, nontraumatic separation of the coronary arterial walls and causes acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. Image Credit: ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an increasingly recognized cause of myocardial infarction (MI) representing 35% of acute coronary syndromes in women aged 50 years or younger and is ...

Background A 34-year-old postpartum woman presented at hospital with chest pain. She had experienced an uneventful delivery of a healthy infant and had no known coronary risk factors.

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who had spontaneous coronary artery dissection during or after their pregnancy were more likely to have ...

An unexpected tear in a heart artery wall is called a Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), and when it occurs, blood pools between the inner and outer layers of the artery. The trapped blood ...

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 ...

Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to your heart. You have two coronary arteries, one on the left side and one on the right side of your heart. Dissection is a medical ...

The Case Study by Satoda and colleagues, 1 published in this issue of Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, reopens the discussion about spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD).