ABSTRACT
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandmic, more patients are presenting with complications late after acute myocardial infarction. We report the case of a 71-year-old man who delayed seeking medical care for 2 weeks, despite progressive shortness of breath, cough, and tactile fever, for fear of contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. Clinical and echocardiographic evaluation revealed a ventricular septal rupture secondary to acute myocardial infarction. The patient underwent urgent cardiac catheterization, followed by successful saphenous vein grafting to the left anterior descending coronary artery and open surgical repair of the ventricular septal rupture with a bovine pericardial patch. This case highlights a potential long-lasting negative effect that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the care-seeking behavior and health of patients with acute cardiovascular disease.
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COVID-19 , Cardiac Catheterization/methods , Coronary Artery Bypass/methods , Fear , Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction , Ventricular Septal Rupture , Aged , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/psychology , Coronary Angiography/methods , Echocardiography/methods , Electrocardiography/methods , Humans , Male , SARS-CoV-2 , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/complications , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/diagnosis , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/physiopathology , ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction/surgery , Time-to-Treatment/trends , Treatment Outcome , Ventricular Septal Rupture/diagnosis , Ventricular Septal Rupture/etiology , Ventricular Septal Rupture/physiopathology , Ventricular Septal Rupture/surgeryABSTRACT
The development of bacterial endocarditis as a result of endoscopic interventions within the gastrointestinal tract is exceedingly rare. Antibiotic prophylaxis for endoscopic procedures is generally not warranted, except for certain high-risk patients. Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) is a common endoscopic procedure for evaluation of the small bowel. Bacterial endocarditis secondary to DBE has not been previously described. We describe the first case of enterococcal endocarditis attributed to DBE in a patient with a history of stage 1 primary biliary cholangitis.
