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Transesophageal echo detection of postpartum coronary artery dissection
S Lerakis1, S Manoukian, R P Martin
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1364 Clifton Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Abstract:
A 40-year-old woman, 1 week postpartum, presented with an acute anterior-septal myocardial infarction, caused by an intrawall hematoma (dissection without intimal flap) in her proximal left anterior descending coronary artery-the diagnosis being initially suggested by transesophageal echo. Discussion of this entity follows.