Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Presenting As ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a non-traumatic spontaneous separation of a coronary wall that can present as acute myocardial infarction. Pregnant females are already at a considerably higher risk of acute myocardial infarction when compared to non-pregnant women of child-bearing a...

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Autores principales: Taha, Israa, Daly, Timothy, Shah, Kashyap, Antoine, Marc K, Puleo, Peter, Axelband, Jennifer, Birsner, Meredith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9172962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35694365
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25722
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Sumario:Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a non-traumatic spontaneous separation of a coronary wall that can present as acute myocardial infarction. Pregnant females are already at a considerably higher risk of acute myocardial infarction when compared to non-pregnant women of child-bearing age, and dissection explains the majority of these cases. Here, we present a 36-year-old female at 36-weeks gestation who experienced ventricular fibrillation arrest after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) secondary to spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery.

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