Key result
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty successfully treated a tight left anterior descending artery stenosis in a pregnant woman following an anterior myocardial infarction.
Population
30-year-old white primigravida with an anterior myocardial infarction at 20 weeks' gestation and troublesome…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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PCI feasible in pregnant MI; case report leaves open need for safety data before practice change.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty can be successfully performed to treat severe coronary stenosis following myocardial infarction during pregnancy.
Cowan et al. (1988) studied this question. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty successfully treated a tight left anterior descending artery stenosis in a pregnant woman following an anterior myocardial infarction.
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