Spontaneous Coronary Dissection: Role of Intravascular Ultrasound
✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Yanes Bowden; Alejandro Sánchez-Grande Flecha; Manuel Vargas Torres; Francisco Bosa Ojeda
- Book ID
- 118499304
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1885-5857
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## Abstract Spontaneous coronary dissection of a coronary artery is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome. Optimal treatment has not yet been established. We describe a woman with spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending artery who presented transitory angina and electrocardiographi
We describe a case of spontaneous coronary artery dissection that gave rise to post infarction unstable angina. An ambiguous angiographic appearance was shown by intracoronary ultrasound to arise from an extensive coronary dissection. The dissection membrane separating true and false lumina and feat