Clinical Case Reports (Jan 2021)

A tricky case of cardiogenic shock: Diagnostic challenges in the COVID‐19 era

  • Vasileios Sachpekidis,
  • Chris Adamopoulos,
  • Antonios Datsios,
  • Lampros Mosialos,
  • Nikolaos Stamatiadis,
  • Christos Gogos,
  • Vasileios Poulianitis,
  • Othonas Galanos,
  • Sofia Stratilati,
  • Ioannis Styliadis,
  • Petros Nihoyannopoulos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3546
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 420 – 424

Abstract

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Abstract Myocardial wall rupture should be considered in patients presenting with hypotension and STEMI especially of delayed onset. Diagnosing this entity in the COVID‐19 era can be challenging—handheld echocardiography may aid toward this end.

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