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Pan Afr Med J ; 45: 74, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37663629

ABSTRACT

Complications following acute myocardial infarction (MI) such as ventricular septal rupture (VSR) and left ventricular (LV) aneurysm are rare and can be dreadful. Their simultaneous presence in the same patient is extremely rare. We aimed to present a rare case of concomitant association of ventricular aneurysm and VSR complicating an inferior myocardial infarction. We report the unusual case of Mr. A. D, a 63-year-old, active smoker, with a history of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, admitted for the management of inferior MI within 6 days. The MI was complicated by an LV aneurysm in the inferoposterior and the inferoseptal walls associated with a VSR in the inferoseptal wall. The patient had only signs of right heart failure on admission. This observation illustrates on the one hand the rarity of the association of VSR and LV aneurysm after an inferior myocardial infarction, and on the other hand the possibility of founding them at an early stage of MI without any signs of cardiogenic shock.


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Heart Aneurysm , Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction , Myocardial Infarction , Ventricular Septal Rupture , Humans , Middle Aged , Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction/complications , Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction/diagnosis , Ventricular Septal Rupture/diagnosis , Ventricular Septal Rupture/etiology , Myocardial Infarction/complications , Myocardial Infarction/diagnosis , Shock, Cardiogenic , Heart Aneurysm/diagnostic imaging , Heart Aneurysm/etiology
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Pan Afr Med J ; 37(Suppl 1): 13, 2020.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33343792

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Klinefelter syndrome is the most common congenital abnormality causing primary hypogonadism and predisposing to a state of hypercoagulability. We report the case of a 37-year-old man, of Algerian nationality, diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome admitted to the hospital via the emergency room for acute chest pain and dyspnea. The patient arrived in Tunisia 36 hours ago. On admission, body temperature was 38.2°C, blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rate were 130/70 mmHg, 120/minute and 26/minute, respectively. He had an oxygen saturation of 87% in room air. His electrocardiography revealed a complete right bundle-branch block, chest X-Ray was normal. In front of the clinical presentation and the origin of the patient coming from an endemic country, COVID-19 infection was suspected but ruled out by pharyngeal swabs testing negative by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction test and massive pulmonary embolism was diagnosed from his chest computed tomography images. The symptoms improved with anticoagulation treatment.


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COVID-19/diagnosis , Klinefelter Syndrome/physiopathology , Pulmonary Embolism/diagnosis , Respiratory Distress Syndrome/diagnosis , Adult , Bundle-Branch Block/diagnosis , Chest Pain/etiology , Dyspnea/etiology , Electrocardiography , Emergency Service, Hospital , Humans , Male , Respiratory Distress Syndrome/etiology , Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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