Case 28-2010: A 32-year-old woman, 3 weeks post partum, with substernal chest pain

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1164-1173

  Sabatine, Marc S ^a,b,c   Jaffer, Farouc A ^b,c   Staats, Paul N ^b,c   Stone, James R ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUBSTERNAL PAIN; THORAX PAIN; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; HEART INFARCTION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PUERPERAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 77956695759     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1000966     Document Type: Article

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