Cardiac arrest due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with coronary ectasia--a case report.
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.
Huikuri
H V
HV
Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida.
Mallon
S M
SM
Myerburg
R J
RJ
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