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Differences in left ventricular myocardial function and infarct size in female patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction and spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction Differences in pathophysiology, clinical presentation, and natural course of ST-elevation myocardial infarction in female patients due to either spontaneous dissection (SCAD-STEMI) or atherothrombotic occlusion (type 1 STEMI) have been discussed. vs. 1.8 ± 5.1%, p  = 0.002). vs. 1.8 ± 5.1%, p  = 0.002).

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ECG Cases 40 – Approach to Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)

ECG Cases

Jesse McLaren on when to consider Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), which patients are at risk for reocclusion, and the challenges of diagnosing SCAD in patients who have nonischemic ECGs despite silent occlusion, occlusions perfused by collaterals, or from non-occlusive MI on this ECG Cases.

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Relationship between personality traits and spontaneous coronary artery dissection risk: evidence from Mendelian randomization

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundSpontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) significantly contributes to myocardial infarction among young individuals. After excluding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) confounded by extrinsic variables, the association of neuroticism scores with SCAD susceptibility persisted.

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Exosomal circSCMH1/miR-874 ratio in serum to predict carotid and coronary plaque stability

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background To investigate the correlation between lg (circSCMH1/miR-874) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and carotid plaque stability. Methods 701 patients were divided into stable coronary artery disease (SCAD), ACS, and control groups.

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is diagnostic of myocardial infarction. 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.

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A woman in her 30s with sudden chest pain, nausea, and diaphoresis. Was her cardiology management appropriate?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

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)?