Background: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of myocardial infarction that must always be considered on a clinician's differential diagnosis, particularly in patients <50-years old with a paucity of typical vascular risk factors. Case presentation: We describe a case of a 33-year-old white woman, 3 weeks postpartum, presenting with retrosternal chest and back pain, neck pain and stiffness, and intermittent headaches. Subsequent workup revealed concurrent spontaneous dissections in three separate medium-sized arterial beds. Conclusions: She was successfully managed in a conservative fashion, highlighting that percutaneous or surgical revascularization can often be foregone in favor of conservative medical therapy.
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Spence, S., Sud, M., Bajaj, R., Zavodni, A., Sandhu, S., & Madan, M. (2016). Postpartum spontaneous coronary, vertebral, and mesenteric artery dissections: A case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-016-0937-0
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