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

Heikki V. Huikuri; Steven M. Mallon; Robert J. Myerburg

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

Heikki V. Huikuri, Steven M. Mallon, Robert J. Myerburg

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	148-151
Number of pages	4
Journal	Angiology
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/000331979104200210
State	Published - Feb 1991

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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