Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic

Like many other countries at the moment, the United Kingdom (UK) is currently under national lockdown due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. An unfortunate consequence of such social isolation measures is that patients with genuine acute medical emergencies may not present to a hos...

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Autores principales: Purkayastha, Pujon, Iftikhar, Muhammad J, Kostrubiec, Maciej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660108
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17913
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description Like many other countries at the moment, the United Kingdom (UK) is currently under national lockdown due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. An unfortunate consequence of such social isolation measures is that patients with genuine acute medical emergencies may not present to a hospital in a timely manner. We present such a scenario, whereby a patient had a delayed presentation of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to fear of breaching COVID-19 lockdown rules. As a result of the patient presenting well outside the optimal treatment window, her STEMI was complicated by a severe ventricular septal defect (VSD). We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the nature and management of STEMIs and associated issues. 
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spelling pubmed-85106952021-10-15 Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic Purkayastha, Pujon Iftikhar, Muhammad J Kostrubiec, Maciej Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Like many other countries at the moment, the United Kingdom (UK) is currently under national lockdown due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. An unfortunate consequence of such social isolation measures is that patients with genuine acute medical emergencies may not present to a hospital in a timely manner. We present such a scenario, whereby a patient had a delayed presentation of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to fear of breaching COVID-19 lockdown rules. As a result of the patient presenting well outside the optimal treatment window, her STEMI was complicated by a severe ventricular septal defect (VSD). We discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the nature and management of STEMIs and associated issues.  Cureus 2021-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8510695/ /pubmed/34660108 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17913 Text en Copyright © 2021, Purkayastha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Purkayastha, Pujon
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Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title_fullStr Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Ventricular Septal Defect in Delayed Presentation of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Secondary to COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort ventricular septal defect in delayed presentation of st-elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) secondary to covid-19 pandemic
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660108
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17913
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