Angioplasty and long stenting can be successfully used to treat chronic spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a patient with polycythemia vera.
May support feasibility of angioplasty with long stenting for chronic SCAD in polycythemia vera; leaves open need for prospective validation.
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of myocardial ischemia or sudden cardiac death. We describe a patient with polycythemia vera and a chronic spontaneous coronary artery dissection who was treated with successful angioplasty and long stenting.
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