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Acute Coronary Syndromes
Chest pain in young peripartum women may indicate spontaneous coronary artery dissection
January 19th, 2006
Precordial chest pain in young peripartum women may indicate spontaneous coronary artery dissection. "Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome or sudden death. Typically it affects young women during the peripartum period and those using oral contraceptives," scientists in the United States reported. "The pathophysiology remains unclear, but an eosinophilic periadventitial inflammation has been commonly observed in such cases," wrote R.M. Gowda and colleagues. "Unlike atherosclerotic intimal dissection, the dissection plane in the spontaneous dissection lies within the media or between the media and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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