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Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection

Although cardiovascular complications are common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, those with milder cases who recovered at home are less studied. Here, we report the case of a young woman who recently recovered from COVID-19 at home. A week after recovery, she was admitted to our institution with...

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Autores principales: Mohamed Ali, Abukar, Wasim, Daanyaal, Larsen, Terje H., Bogale, Nigussie, Bleie, Øyvind, Saeed, Sahrai
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34198838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8060066
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author Mohamed Ali, Abukar
Wasim, Daanyaal
Larsen, Terje H.
Bogale, Nigussie
Bleie, Øyvind
Saeed, Sahrai
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description Although cardiovascular complications are common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, those with milder cases who recovered at home are less studied. Here, we report the case of a young woman who recently recovered from COVID-19 at home. A week after recovery, she was admitted to our institution with acute chest pain, signs of ischemia on the electrocardiogram and elevated cardiac troponins. Coronary angiography showed normal epicardial coronary arteries, but the cardiac magnetic resonance showed transmural late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in the mid-ventricular level of the lateral wall. The findings were strongly suggestive of a minor transmural myocardial infarction. This case report highlights the role of multimodality imaging in detecting cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients as well as the fact that mild COVID-19 cases who recovered at home are also exposed to thromboembolic events during the convalescent period.
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spelling pubmed-82279312021-06-26 Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection Mohamed Ali, Abukar Wasim, Daanyaal Larsen, Terje H. Bogale, Nigussie Bleie, Øyvind Saeed, Sahrai J Cardiovasc Dev Dis Case Report Although cardiovascular complications are common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, those with milder cases who recovered at home are less studied. Here, we report the case of a young woman who recently recovered from COVID-19 at home. A week after recovery, she was admitted to our institution with acute chest pain, signs of ischemia on the electrocardiogram and elevated cardiac troponins. Coronary angiography showed normal epicardial coronary arteries, but the cardiac magnetic resonance showed transmural late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in the mid-ventricular level of the lateral wall. The findings were strongly suggestive of a minor transmural myocardial infarction. This case report highlights the role of multimodality imaging in detecting cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients as well as the fact that mild COVID-19 cases who recovered at home are also exposed to thromboembolic events during the convalescent period. MDPI 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8227931/ /pubmed/34198838 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8060066 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection
title Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection
title_full Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection
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title_full_unstemmed Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection
title_short Acute Myocardial Infarction Due to Microvascular Obstruction in a Young Woman Who Recently Recovered from COVID-19 Infection
title_sort acute myocardial infarction due to microvascular obstruction in a young woman who recently recovered from covid-19 infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34198838
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd8060066
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