Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection Dissection of a coronary artery may occur in the context of atherosclerosis, or be iatrogennic during angiography or angioplasty. In the absence of these factors it is termed spontaneous coronary artery dissection ( SCAD ). A recent study found that SCAD causes almost 20% of STEMI in young women.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

Immediate and early percutaneous coronary intervention in very high-risk and high-risk non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction patients. Currently, SCAD is a diagnosis that can only be established emergently in the cath lab with angiography. Lupu L, Taha L, Banai A, et al. And is there new left bundle branch block (LBBB)?

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

MINOCA now encompasses Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), a rare condition that is known to manifest primarily in women and affects the epicardial coronary artery. Despite padding the MINOCA numbers with SCAD, MINOCA is much rarer than conventional epicardial coronary disease. versus 66.3%; P =0.004), older age (62.4±7.9

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