Subacute Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture after Delayed STEMI Presentation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Remo Albiero, MD; Giuseppe Seresini, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Aug 2020)

Subacute Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture after Delayed STEMI Presentation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Remo Albiero, MD,
Giuseppe Seresini, MD

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Remo Albiero, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Remo Albiero, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Sondrio Hospital, Via Stelvio, 25, 23100 Sondrio, Italy.; Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Sondrio Hospital, Sondrio, Italy
Giuseppe Seresini, MD: Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Sondrio Hospital, Sondrio, Italy

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 10
pp. 1603 – 1609

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The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing delayed ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) presentations associated with now unusual postinfarction complications. We describe a delayed (5-day) STEMI presentation because the patient feared contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. The patient experienced an extensive anterolateral STEMI complicated by subacute left ventricular free wall rupture that required a rapid surgical repair. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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