Spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Over the past decade there has been a radical change in the clinical appreciation of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) a non-atherosclerotic non-traumatic cause of coronary syndrome and cardiac death.Recent evidence suggests that SCAD is not so rare and that its recognition has a major therapeutic impact.The aims of this book were to describe the demographic clinical angiographic and therapeutic characteristics of patients with CAD and to assess the immediate and long-term prognosis of these patients.