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Covid 19 Myocarditis: Myth Or Reality?, Lamyae Sasbou Md
Covid 19 Myocarditis: Myth Or Reality?, Lamyae Sasbou Md
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
COVID 19 so far is not a known cardiotropic virus, and the term “myocarditis” should be exclusively used after EMB or autopsy proven diagnosis.
We report a case of 26-year-old man admitted for COVID 19 infection and symptoms leading to a myocarditis. We describe the workup that led to the potential diagnosis.
Bad Heart Luck: Myocardial Infarction Related To Iatrogenic Coronary Cameral Fistula In A Heart Transplant Patient, Badre El Boussaadani, Zakaria Raiss, Amine Qat, Pascal Goube
Bad Heart Luck: Myocardial Infarction Related To Iatrogenic Coronary Cameral Fistula In A Heart Transplant Patient, Badre El Boussaadani, Zakaria Raiss, Amine Qat, Pascal Goube
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) remains the gold standard method for diagnosis of cardiac allograft rejection. Complications following EMB rarely occur, however, it can lead to coronary cameral fistulae (CCF). We describe the case of a 65-year-old patient admitted for lateral STEMI related to a fistula communicating the distal part of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) with the right ventricle after EMB biopsy, which was incompletely closed with a covered stent.
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