Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) occurs without warning and can lead to serious complications, including death. Symptoms can include chest pain, shoulder pain, shortness of breath ...

Given the patient's age, medical history, and lack of obvious risk factors, there was a substantial possibility that the lesion was either a spiral dissection or a prolonged coronary vasospasm.

Getting at the natural history of nonatherosclerotic spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), a prospective cohort study found the risk of longer-term recurrent dissections and other ...

During a "Friendsgiving" gathering, she experienced severe chest pain and was admitted into the emergency room and diagnosed with spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD. According to the ...

It can also block blood flow to the rest of the body. Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is not a form of CAD, although it affects the coronary arteries. It is a spontaneous and sudden ...

WINDHAM — The acute event, a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, wrought wide changes that reverberated through Tara Benoit’s life. The Windham mom of two young children, ages 10 and 8 ...

Doctors at the Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre (SRMC) recently treated a 60-year-old woman with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD). According to a press release, the patient had ...

When this happens, it's called spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). This is an emergency health situation that can cause a heart attack. So it's very important to get medical care quickly.

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

Research on spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, has exploded in the last decade, says Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and a leading expert on this rare heart condition.