Two patients with acute myocardial infarction presenting with simultaneous acute ischemic stroke / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
;
: 672-675, 2008.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
Myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke often share the same risk factors and pathogenic mechanism. Sometimes they can occur in the same patient proximately, occurring days or weeks apart. However, the simultaneous occurrence of MI and stroke is rare and presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Specifically, an acute stroke can alter typical features of MI. Thus, recognition of the coexistence of these two events requires a high threshold of suspicion. The authors describe two patients who presented with simultaneous stroke and MI development. The two events developed on the same day in both patients. The second patient did not have chest pain, whereas chest symptoms could not be assessed in the first patient secondary to altered mental status. After the diagnoses were made using clinical and laboratory findings, urgent percutaneous coronary intervention was performed in both patients.
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Main subject:
Thorax
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Chest Pain
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Risk Factors
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Stroke
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
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Infarction
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Myocardial Infarction
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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