title: Cardiac arrest due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with coronary ectasia--a case report.
abstract: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare event and only in a few patients has the diagnosis been angiographically confirmed during life. A spontaneous dissection of the right coronary artery was detected as a cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a patient with coronary artery ectasia.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida.
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Huikuri
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mallon
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Myerburg
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000792:Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male