SCAD: The Heart Attack That Strikes Young Women
By Jennifer Clopton
March 19, 2018 -- Christine Shockey suspected she was having a heart attack when she awoke at 2 a.m. with excruciating pain shooting down her left arm.
But it took medical professionals 5 days to figure it out -- a delay that changed her health forever.
Shockey went to the ER to have her pain checked out and told the doctors that 8 days earlier, her 43-year-old sister had a type of heart attack called spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD.
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20180319/scad-heart-attack-strikes-young-women
