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Spontaneous left main coronary artery dissection in pregnancy

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    Our search strategy returned 273 results. Exclusion of duplicate results and articles not meeting specified a priori criteria (162 articles) resulted in 111 articles describing 138 cases of P-SCAD [5–92]. Demographic case details extracted from all case reports were maternal age, cardiac risk factors (defined as both number of cardiac risk factors and a binary variable), presence of an autoimmune or connective tissue disorder, gravidity/parity status, gestational time or days post-partum at onset of P-SCAD, and whether the pregnancy was a result of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or a multiple pregnancy.

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