2019, SCAD and STEMI - Cardiovascular Update

Healthy 45-year-old with chest pain: early repolarization, pericarditis or injury?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Here is the post shock ECG: Cardiology was called stat for ischemic VT, query SCAD vs thrombotic occlusion vs coronary vasospasm. Cath lab was activated: There was no coronary artery disease, but there was spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) of the distal LAD, which was narrowed by 95%, and treated medically.

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Chest Pain Pericarditis SCAD STEMI

A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In the absence of these factors it is termed spontaneous coronary artery dissection ( SCAD ). At that time the literature suggested: SCAD was rare , Mostly related to pregnancy , Seen on angiography as a dissection flap , and Managed similarly to MI caused by CAD (ASA, BB, lytics/PCI ). The SCAD cases in Lobo et al. Lobo et al.

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Chest Pain SCAD STEMI Cardiogenic Shock

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Healthy 45-year-old with chest pain: early repolarization, pericarditis or injury?

A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

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