CT Rather Than Invasive Angiography for Pregnant Patients With NSTEMI?: More Delay and More Radiation

Furthermore, in the developed world, as older women become pregnant, classical risk factors for atherosclerotic coronary disease are likely to become more important (5). [...]after clinical evaluation, and urgent echocardiography to look for supportive evidence of alternative diagnoses (e.g., aortic dissection and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy), the best place to clarify diagnosis and prognosis as well as offer treatment is surely the catheterization laboratory, as it would be for any young patient presenting with an acute coronary syndrome.