title: A case of sudden death due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection.
abstract: Spontaneous dissection of the coronary arteries is an extremely rare event that occurs usually in middle-aged women and is mostly recognized at postmortem examination in victims of sudden death. It is a rare coronary pathologic finding whose precise incidence, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and evolution have not been clearly established. We present a sudden death case of a 53-year-old woman with spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery with eosinophilic coronary arteritis.
authors.affiliation: Pathology Department, Gannan Medical College, Ganzhou, PR China. tomganzhou@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fengping
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jue
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qingchun
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fangxing
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000473:pathology*; D001167:Arteritis / Q000150:complications; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000473:pathology*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged