Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare event and only in a few patients has the diagnosis been angiographically confirmed during life. A spon taneous dissection of the right coronary artery was detected as a cause of out-of- hospital cardiac arrest in a patient with coronary artery ectasia.
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