Roberts D H, Rodrigues E A, Ramsdale D R
Cardiothoracic Centre, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, England.
Angiology. 1993 Jul;44(7):570-3. doi: 10.1177/000331979304400710.
A twenty-three-year-old woman had an acute myocardial infarction during the early postpartum period successfully treated with intravenous streptokinase. The possible mechanisms of postpartum myocardial infarction are reviewed, and the clinical implication for the use of streptokinase in this situation is discussed.