Acute myocardial infarction and allergy, causal or casual relationship?
Journal: Journal of Clinical Images and Medical Case Reports (Vol.2, No. 3)Publication Date: 2021-06-30
Authors : José I Morgado Garcia-Polavieja; Margarita Castillo Paredes; Enrique López Herrero; Francisco Javier Fernández López; Ana Blanca Paloma Martínez Pérez; José Francisco Díaz Fernández;
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Keywords : Kounis syndrome; Allergic myocardial infarction; Myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries.;
Abstract
A 53-year-old man with a known allergy to metamizole presented for acute gonalgia, receiving metamizole by mistake. He suffers a severe allergy reaction accompanied by chest pain and signs of acute lower myocardial infarction, which subsides with treatment of anaphylactic shock and fibrinolysis, without observing intracoronary thrombus or signs of complication of atherosclerotic plaque.
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