Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses

We describe a patient who presented with respiratory failure, chest pain, and fever. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, the focus was diverted to the coronavirus infection, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction was missed. Although we need to be vigilant in the diagnosis of COVID-19, we should n...

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Autores principales: Yousefzai, Rayan, Bhimaraj, Arvind
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Mini-Focus Issue: SCAI
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32342051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.04.018
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description We describe a patient who presented with respiratory failure, chest pain, and fever. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, the focus was diverted to the coronavirus infection, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction was missed. Although we need to be vigilant in the diagnosis of COVID-19, we should not forget about the common disorders. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-71840232020-04-27 Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses Yousefzai, Rayan Bhimaraj, Arvind JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: SCAI We describe a patient who presented with respiratory failure, chest pain, and fever. In the COVID-19 pandemic era, the focus was diverted to the coronavirus infection, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction was missed. Although we need to be vigilant in the diagnosis of COVID-19, we should not forget about the common disorders. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2020-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7184023/ /pubmed/32342051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.04.018 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses
title_full Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses
title_fullStr Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses
title_full_unstemmed Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses
title_short Misdiagnosis in the COVID-19 Era: When Zebras Are Everywhere, Don’t Forget the Horses
title_sort misdiagnosis in the covid-19 era: when zebras are everywhere, don’t forget the horses
topic Mini-Focus Issue: SCAI
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7184023/
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