Given the patient's age, medical history, and lack of obvious risk factors, there was a substantial possibility that the lesion was either a spiral dissection or a prolonged coronary vasospasm.

Her heart was also enlarged. Dead heart muscle had formed an aneurysm, a bulging weak spot that could rupture at any moment.

The acute event, a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, wrought wide changes that reverberated through Tara Benoit’s life.

In November 2023, the 46-year-old survived a spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD — a less common type of heart ...

Doctors repaired two of Mixson’s arteries, which had torn open in a condition called spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Mixson spent five days in the hospital after the surgery, he said ...

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five ...

Cervical artery dissection incidence increased from 2005 to 2019, with admissions particularly high in older, Black, and Hispanic populations.