Case report of myocardial infarction in labor.

Menegakis, N E; Amstey, M S · Am J Obstet Gynecol · 1991

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Substernal and epigastric pain occurring during labor was not considered important until the first postpartum day when an obvious myocardial infarction was diagnosed in a 37-year-old woman. Angiography revealed normal coronary arteries, and the myocardial infarction was postulated to be due to arterial spasm in association with smoking, oxytocin, ephedrine, and epidural anesthesia.

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