A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...
Healthy, young and pregnant women can suffer severe and deadly heart attacks for different reasons. Approximately one-third of heart attacks in women younger than 50, and the leading cause of ...
An aortic dissection happens when tears appear in the inner lining of the aorta, which is the main artery leaving the heart. Blood surges into the tears, causing the aorta lining to split, or dissect.