Given the patient's age, medical history, and lack of obvious risk factors, there was a substantial possibility that the lesion was either a spiral dissection or a prolonged coronary vasospasm.

The acute event, a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, wrought wide changes that reverberated through Tara Benoit’s life.

He suspected she'd had a heart attack caused by a spontaneous coronary artery dissection. SCAD happens when a coronary artery wall suddenly tears, slowing or blocking blood flow to the heart. It's ...

In November 2023, the 46-year-old survived a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD — a less common type of heart ...

A coronary artery dissection occurs when there is injury to the intima resulting in its separation from the media creating a false lumen. This can result in hemodynamically significant stenosis ...

Doctors repaired two of Mixson’s arteries, which had torn open in a condition called spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Mixson spent five days in the hospital after the surgery, he said ...