A case of sudden death due to spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2011 Dec;32(4):312-3. doi: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e318219c8d3.

Abstract

Spontaneous dissection of the coronary arteries is an extremely rare event that occurs usually in middle-aged women and is mostly recognized at postmortem examination in victims of sudden death. It is a rare coronary pathologic finding whose precise incidence, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and evolution have not been clearly established. We present a sudden death case of a 53-year-old woman with spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery with eosinophilic coronary arteritis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Dissection / pathology*
  • Arteritis / complications
  • Coronary Aneurysm / pathology*
  • Coronary Vessels / pathology
  • Death, Sudden / etiology*
  • Eosinophilia / complications
  • Female
  • Forensic Pathology
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged