Dilemmas in managing acute myocardial infarction during Covid-19 pandemic

Meng-Yun Tsai; Ing-Kit Lee; Chia-Te Kung

Biomedical Journal (Aug 2021)

Dilemmas in managing acute myocardial infarction during Covid-19 pandemic

Meng-Yun Tsai,
Ing-Kit Lee,
Chia-Te Kung

Affiliations

Meng-Yun Tsai: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ing-Kit Lee: Division of Infection Disease Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Chia-Te Kung: Division of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Corresponding author. Division of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 123, Dapi Rd., Niaosong, Kaohsiung 833, Taiwan.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 44, no. 4
pp. 508 – 511

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A 38-year-old man presented to emergency department with dizziness, dyspnea and diarrhea for 5 days. Serum lab data revealed lymphopenia and computed tomography imaging of the chest exhibited multiple ground-glass patches in bilateral lung fields. COVID-19 was suspected and further examination was done. But patient's dyspnea progressed while waiting for the result of COVID-19 examination and respiratory failure with cardiac arrest occurred eventually, acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed then. This article is aimed to discuss the dilemmas in managing acute myocardial infarction during COVID-19 pandemic.

Published in Biomedical Journal

ISSN: 2319-4170 (Print); 2320-2890 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General); Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biomedical-journal

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