Surgical Treatment of a Postpartal Spontaneous Left Main Coronary Artery Dissection

Abstract

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.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection - peripartum

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