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.

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 ...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries ...

The right coronary artery can also be involved causing an inferior myocardial infarction. Rupture of the ascending aortic dissection into the pericardium can cause a rapid pericardial effusion ...

A silent heart attack is a specific type of heart attack that impacts women after pregnancy and a Valley woman is warning of the hidden dangers.

In a field often centered around men’s health, one cardiology leader is bringing awareness to an often overlooked pregnancy-associated cardiovascular condition. Nandita Scott, MD, is director of Mass ...

A new study has found that apolipoprotein B particle count and lipoprotein(a) count were critical indicators of risk for ...

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

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 ...

such as in the case of a coronary artery dissection." Regardless of the reason for the heart attack, prompt care is needed.