Highlights the lack of specific guidelines for the treatment and intracoronary imaging of spontaneous coronary artery dissection, a condition disproportionately affecting young women.
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No SCAD-specific guidelines exist for treatment or imaging; leaves open the need for dedicated trials in young women.
S pontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an infre- quent cause of acute coronary syndromes but is represented disproportionately in young female patients. No specific guidelines exist concerning the appropriate treatment (medical ther-apy, intracoronary stents, coronary bypass surgery) or the optimal type of stents in otherwise atheroma-free vessels. The role of intracoronary imaging with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) has yet to be fully established.
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Poon et al. (2011) studied this question.
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