Key result
Case report details the first known male survivor of spontaneous LAD dissection.
Why the study?
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare event with potentially fatal outcomes, and survival in a male with left anterior descending artery dissection had not been reported.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report documents a rare instance of survival in a male patient following spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery.
Alerts clinicians to SCAD in men with ACS; leaves open sex-specific incidence, management, and outcomes.
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare event, felt to be caused by intimal disruption and formation of a false lumen in the vessel wall. Compression of the true lumen by intramural hematoma may result in obstruction to blood flow, myocardial ischemia, infarction, and ultimately, death. We report the first instance (to our knowledge) of survival in a man with spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery.
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Vacek et al. (1987) conducted a case report in Spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery (n=1). Spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery was evaluated on Survival. A male patient survived a spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery, representing the first reported instance of survival in a man with this condition.
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