Key result
Spontaneous double-vessel coronary dissection causing early peripartum myocardial infarction was successfully diagnosed antemortem and treated in a 24-year-old woman.
Population
24-year-old woman with early peripartum myocardial infarction resulting from spontaneous dissection of the…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to multivessel SCAD in peripartum MI; leaves open optimal strategies pending larger studies.
This case represents the first reported instance of an antemortem diagnosis and successful treatment of a double-vessel spontaneous coronary artery dissection involving both the LAD and RCA in the peripartum period.
Madu et al. (1994) studied this question. Spontaneous double-vessel coronary dissection causing early peripartum myocardial infarction was successfully diagnosed antemortem and treated in a 24-year-old woman.
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