A twenty-three-year-old woman had an acute myocardial infarction during the early postpartum period successfully treated with intravenous strepto kinase. The possible mechanisms of postpartum myocardial infarction are re viewed, and the clinical implication for the use of streptokinase in this situation is discussed.
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