Pregnancy and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Lessons From Survivors and Nonsurvivors.

Keywords: coronary vessels; maternal death; myocardial infarction; pregnancy EN coronary vessels maternal death myocardial infarction pregnancy 69 72 4 07/15/22 20220705 NES 220705 Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an important cause of myocardial infarction associated with pregnancy (P-SCAD).[[1], [3]] It is also an understudied cause of maternal death.[4] The present study aimed to report clinical presentation and management of P-SCAD in survivors and non-survivors and to investigate the outcome of pregnancies in women with previous SCAD. Footnotes 1 Nonstandard Abbreviations and Acronyms P-SCAD spontaneous coronary artery dissection associated with pregnancy SCAD spontaneous coronary artery dissection 2 N. Chan and D. Premawardhana contributed equally. CABG indicates coronary artery bypass grafting; NSTEMI, non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; SCAD, spontaneous coronary artery dissection; STEMI, ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction; and TIMI, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction. [Extracted from the article]