Chest Pain Plaque SCAD 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2019
[link] A 30 year-old woman was brought to the ED with chest pain. She had given birth a week ago, and she had similar chest pain during her labor. She attributed the chest pain to anxiety and stress, saying "I'm just an anxious person." Fibromuscular dysplasia is a much more common trigger for SCAD.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 8, 2022
The ECG is diagnostic for acute transmural infarction of the anterior and lateral walls, with LAD OMI being the most likely cause (which has various potential etiologies for the actual cause of the acute coronary artery occlusion, the most common of which is of course type 1 ACS, plaque rupture with thrombotic occlusion). Is there STEMI?
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Case 1: 20-something woman with chest pain Case 2: 50-something man with chest pain Case 1 A 20-something yo woman presented in the middle of the night with severe crushing chest pain. This was ruptured plaque with thrombus. He had never experienced a similar pain at rest or upon exertion.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JULY 31, 2018
What is Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)? I asked Angie Lobo ( [link] ), a third year intermal medicine resident at Abbott Northwestern Hospital (and Minneapolis Heart Institute) and an aspiring cardiologist, to write a couple paragraphs on SCAD. There are no randomized controlled trials for treatment strategies in SCAD.
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