Severe systolic hypertension was identified as a possible pathophysiologic factor in the development of multivessel spontaneous coronary artery dissection in an elderly woman.
Severe systolic hypertension may play a pathophysiologic role in the development of spontaneous coronary artery dissection.
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an uncommon cause of myocardial ischemia and infarction. Hypertension has not been associated with SCAD. The authors report multivessel SCAD in an elderly woman with severe systolic hypertension. They postulate that hypertension of this degree may play a pathophysiologic role in the causation of SCAD.
Greenblatt et al. (Tue,) reported a other. Severe systolic hypertension was identified as a possible pathophysiologic factor in the development of multivessel spontaneous coronary artery dissection in an elderly woman.
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