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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here’s the angiogram of the RCA : No thrombus or plaque rupture in the RCA (or any coronary artery) was found. This MI wasn’t caused by a ruptured plaque of CAD - it was a coronary artery dissection of the RCA. In the absence of these factors it is termed spontaneous coronary artery dissection ( SCAD ).