Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic pathogenesis of acute coronary syndrome, characterized by a hematoma within the coronary artery vessel wall. SCAD may cause heart ...

Subintimal dissection with acute occlusion of the internal carotid artery resulting in acute cerebral infarction has not been reported as an iatrogenic complication of general anesthesia.An ...

Results Fifty (3.0%) of the 1647 cases of SCD were associated with non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology (31 male subjects (62%) and 19 female subjects (38%, age range (8 weeks–71 years)). Twenty ...