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Cardiac Arrest Due to Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in a Patient with Coronary Ectasia—A Case Report

Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Steven M. Mallon

Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Robert J. Myerburg

Division of Cardiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

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.

Angiology, Vol. 42, No. 2, 148-151 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979104200210


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