COVID-19 infection presenting as a myocardial infarction. Report of one case

Isolated cardiac involvement of COVID-19 is an infrequent presentation, and myocardial infarction is even less common. We report a 30-year-old man presenting with retrosternal pain of insidious onset whose intensity increases suddenly. On admission, the patient had tachycardia and an EKG showed a 1 mm ST-elevation and diffuse PQ segment depression. Troponin was 26.9 ng/ml (normal value [NV] < 0.03), inflammatory parameters were elevated, and SARS-CoV 2 PCR was positive. He was hospitalized with the diagnosis of myopericarditis secondary to SARS-CoV 2. He progressed favorably without pain during the hospital stay and with decreasing troponin values. A Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was compatible with an infero-lateral transmural infarction. A coronary angiography showed a distal occlusion of the circumflex artery. Consequently, anticoagulation and double platelet anti-aggregation were started. The patient evolved favorably, with a decreasing troponin curve (last at discharge 0.49 ng/ml) and a control EKG with pathological Q in DIII and AvF, and symmetrically inverted T in DII, DIII, AvF, V4, V5, and V6.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:148

Enthalten in:

Revista medica de Chile - 148(2020), 12 vom: 12. Dez., Seite 1848-1854

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Paciente de 30 años con infarto agudo al miocardio e infección por SARS-CoV-2, presentación inhabitual de Covid-19. Caso clínico

Beteiligte Personen:

Weitz-Muñoz, Sebastián [VerfasserIn]
Parra-Lucares, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
Ihl, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Ramos, Cristóbal [VerfasserIn]
Chaigneau, Ernesto [VerfasserIn]
Llancaqueo, Marcelo [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 14.04.2021

Date Revised 14.04.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4067/S0034-98872020001201848

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NLM323997872