Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A healthy 45-year-old female presented with chest pain, with normal vitals. The patient was previously healthy, with no atherosclerotic risk factors, and developed chest pain after an episode of stress. The pain was crushing retrosternal, radiated to the arms and was associated with lightheadedness.

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Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

This means that at every age, the probability a man complaining of chest pain has significant underlying coronary disease as a cause of this chest pain is much higher than a woman complaining of chest pain. Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6%

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 31, 2018

hours of substernal chest pressure. She had zero CAD risk factors. What is Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)? SCAD occurs in patients with few or non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors. There are no randomized controlled trials for treatment strategies in SCAD.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) accounts for 1%–4% of cases of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). SCAD is caused by separation occurring within or between any of the three tunics of the coronary artery wall. The incidence of SCAD is higher in women than in men, with a ratio of approximately 9:1.

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