Surgical treatment of a postpartal spontaneous left main coronary artery dissection

H Gasparovic1, R Ugljen, V Coric

  • 1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Rebro Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. hgasparovic@yahoo.com

We report on a 34-year-old woman who presented with acute anterolateral myocardial infarction 12 weeks postpartum. Cardiac catheterization documented a left main coronary artery dissection with complete occlusion of the left anterior descending artery. The surgical treatment and the complicated postoperative course are discussed here.

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