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Does any one have experence of acute coronary syndromes in pregnancy?

36 year old woman, 32 weeks pregnant with no Family History of IHD.
Presented with 2 hours crushing central to left sided chest pain.
No ECG changes
Negative exercise test

18 hours Troponin I (Beckman Access) 0.06 ng/mL (repeat analysis 0.07)
7 days repeat TnI < 0.03 ng/mL

Any thoughts?
Julian

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