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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

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It had started just after nursing her newborn, about an hour prior, and she described it as a severe non-pleuritic “pressure” radiating to the back. In the absence of these factors it is termed spontaneous coronary artery dissection ( SCAD ). However, in the intervening years there have been marked changes in the understanding of SCAD.