Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine (Sep 2020)

A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis?

  • Libenciuc Camelia,
  • Licu Răzvan-Andrei,
  • Kovacs Istvan,
  • Chitu Monica,
  • Benedek Imre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 120 – 125

Abstract

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Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) has been defined as clinical presentation of an acute coronary syndrome with laboratory evidence of myocardial necrosis, but with coronary stenosis of less than 50% on coronary angiography. On the other side, myocarditis is an inflammatory response triggered by viral, bacterial, fungal, lymphocytic, eosinophilic, or autoimmune myocardial injury, which may be associated with elevated myocardial necrosis serum biomarkers. We present the case of a young male patient with acute chest pain, ST-segment elevation, and high-sensitivity troponin levels of 22,162 ng/L.

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