Postpartum Coronary Vasospasm with Literature Review

Acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy or the postpartum period is rare. We report a case of a 39-year-old postpartum woman who developed non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to severe diffuse coronary vasospasm. To our knowledge, this is the first case of angiographically evidenced coro...

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Autores principales: Koneru, Jayanth, Cholankeril, Matthew, Patel, Kunal, Alattar, Fadi, Alqaqa, Ashraf, Virk, Hirtaj, Shamoon, Fayez, Bikkina, Mahesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25105029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/523023
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author Koneru, Jayanth
Cholankeril, Matthew
Patel, Kunal
Alattar, Fadi
Alqaqa, Ashraf
Virk, Hirtaj
Shamoon, Fayez
Bikkina, Mahesh
author_facet Koneru, Jayanth
Cholankeril, Matthew
Patel, Kunal
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Alqaqa, Ashraf
Virk, Hirtaj
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description Acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy or the postpartum period is rare. We report a case of a 39-year-old postpartum woman who developed non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to severe diffuse coronary vasospasm. To our knowledge, this is the first case of angiographically evidenced coronary vasospasm, in a postpartum woman, with resistance to intracoronary nitroglycerin.
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spelling pubmed-41092162014-08-07 Postpartum Coronary Vasospasm with Literature Review Koneru, Jayanth Cholankeril, Matthew Patel, Kunal Alattar, Fadi Alqaqa, Ashraf Virk, Hirtaj Shamoon, Fayez Bikkina, Mahesh Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy or the postpartum period is rare. We report a case of a 39-year-old postpartum woman who developed non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to severe diffuse coronary vasospasm. To our knowledge, this is the first case of angiographically evidenced coronary vasospasm, in a postpartum woman, with resistance to intracoronary nitroglycerin. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4109216/ /pubmed/25105029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/523023 Text en Copyright © 2014 Jayanth Koneru et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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