SCAD Angiography

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nate Michalak, B.A.

Shown below are animated and static angiography images exemplifying each type of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). For clinical aspects of the disease click here.

Type 1

Projection angle: 14 RAO, 35 CRA. Type 1 SCAD is seen in OM2.

Projection angle: 30 RAO, 30 CAU. Type 1 SCAD is seen in L2.

Projection angle: 33 LAO, 2 CRA. Two independent type 1 SCAD lesions are seen in R2 and R3.

Projection angle: 26 RAO, 24 CAU. Type 1 SCAD is seen in OM1/OT. Note, there is also a type 2A in C1.

Projection angle: 36 RAO, 11 CAU. Type 1 SCAD is seen in L1, L2. Note, there is also a type 2B in OM1.