Cardiac Arrest Due to Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in a Patient with Coronary Ectasia—A Case Report
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by SAGE Publications in Angiology
- Vol. 42 (2) , 148-151
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000331979104200210
Abstract
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare event and only in a few patients has the diagnosis been angiographically confirmed during life. A spon taneous dissection of the right coronary artery was detected as a cause of out-of- hospital cardiac arrest in a patient with coronary artery ectasia.Keywords
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