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Acute myocardial infarction during early pregnancy
S E Jensen1, E E Simonsen, P Thayssen
1Department of Medicine, Haderslev Hospital, Denmark.
A 29-year-old woman with two previous births, suffered a non-fatal Q-wave myocardial infarction early in the second trimester of pregnancy. She gave uncomplicated birth to a healthy child 25 weeks later. Post-partum coronary arteriography revealed a 66% stenosis on the left anterior descending coronary artery. The patient was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
A 29-year-old woman with two previous births, suffered a non-fatal Q-wave myocardial infarction early in the second trimester of pregnancy. She gave uncomplicated birth to a healthy child 25 weeks later. Post-partum coronary arteriography revealed a 66% stenosis on the left anterior descending coronary artery. The patient was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.