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A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis? Cover

A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis?

Open Access
|Oct 2020

Abstract

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.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2501-8132 | Journal ISSN: 2501-5974
Language: English
Page range: 120 - 125
Submitted on: Jul 8, 2020
Accepted on: Aug 24, 2020
Published on: Oct 19, 2020
Published by: Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2020 Camelia Libenciuc, Răzvan-Andrei Licu, Istvan Kovacs, Monica Chitu, Imre Benedek, published by Asociatia Transilvana de Terapie Transvasculara si Transplant KARDIOMED
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