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If aortic dissection is the most painful clinical condition why coronary dissection is least painful?

July 19, 2008 4:45 am

Thousands of dissections happen in cath labs  all over the world every day  very rarely it is painful . The answer is not clear. Both have rich vasa nervorum. Aortic dissection  involves media and smooth muscle . Coronary dissection may also be a  equally painful  , probably we are not recognising it ! or we attribute   all  chest pain in ACS  to ischemia .

Deep dissections into the smooth muscle should be painful.  Type c nerve fibers carry pain signals from heart

Answers welcome.

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One Response to “If aortic dissection is the most painful clinical condition why coronary dissection is least painful?”

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    By Gerald on December 8, 2012 at 9:29 pm

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