Acute myocardial infarction and coronavirus infection (COVID-19)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to describe a case of COVID-19 and myocardial infarction in an elderly patient.

Material and methods. The analysis of medical documentation (outpatient card of the patient, medical history, postmortem report) was carried out. Studied macro- and micropreparations (staining with hematoxylin and eosin).

Results. A 67-year-old patient, from 23.04.2020 to 26.04.2020, was hospitalized with a diagnosis of suspected coronavirus infection (COVID-19). On the background of the treatment, the patient's biological death occurred (26.04.2020). The sectional study revealed signs of bilateral total hemorrhagic pneumonia. The signs of acute transmural myocardial infarction of the anterior wall of the left ventricle were determined. Posthumously, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in the lung tissue by nucleic acid amplification. In the described clinical case, a patient with concomitant cardiovascular diseases, such as arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, developed complications against the background of COVID-19: hemorrhagic pneumonia and myocardial infarction with a fatal outcome.

Keywords:COVID-19, myocardial infarction, arterial hypertension, pneumonia

Funding. The study had no sponsor support.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

Contribution. Research concept and design, material processing, text writing, editing - Vorobeva O.V.; research concept and design, material processing - Lastochkin A.V.

For citation: Vorobeva O.V., Lastochkin A.V. Acute myocardial infarction and coronavirus infection (COVID-19). Infektsionnye bolezni: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie [Infectious Diseases: News, Opinions, Training]. 2021; 10 (1): 93-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/2305-3496-2021-10-1-93-97 (in Russian)

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CHIEF EDITOR
Aleksandr V. Gorelov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Head of Infection Diseases and Epidemiology Department of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Clinical Medicine named after N.A. Semashko ofRussian University of Medicine, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Childhood Diseases, Clinical Institute of Children's Health named after N.F. Filatov, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director for Research, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor (Moscow, Russian Federation)

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