Highlights a rare case of spontaneous coronary artery dissection causing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a patient with coronary artery ectasia.
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.
Huikuri et al. (Fri,) studied this question.