Interruption of the Aortic Arch in the Adult and Fulminant Myocarditis: A Strange Presentation Volume 3 - Issue 5

Jesús Samuel Borges López¹, Víctor Ochoa Pérez², Emma Rosas Munive³, Rodolfo de Jesús Castaño Guerra⁴ and Eduardo Ayala Hernández⁴

• ¹Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”.
• ²Hemodynamics Department, General Hospital of Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”.
• ³Echocardiography Department, General Hospital of Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”.
• ⁴Coronary Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Mexico “Dr. Eduardo Liceaga”.

Received:September 27, 2021;   Published:October 12, 2021

Corresponding author: Jesús Samuel Borges López, Calle José Antonio Torres # 524. Int 201. Col. Paulino Navarro. From. Cuauhtémoc. Mexico City, Mexico

DOI: 10.32474/ACR.2021.03.000172

 

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53 years old female patient, who presented oppressive precordial pain, radiating to the neck and jaw, for which she went to the emergency room, where an ECG image of complete left bundle branch block was evidenced (Figure 1), with taking ultrasensitive troponin I at > 50,000 pg/ml, presenting data of acute heart failure and acute pulmonary edema, requiring endotracheal intubation, moving urgently to cardiac catheterization without evidence of obstructive coronary lesions, observing in aortography interruption of the aortic arch with collateral vessels connecting to the descending aorta (Figure 2). Later in the ICU, an echocardiogram was performed that reported LVEF of 27%, generalized hypokinesia, severe MI and apical thrombus (Figure 3), diagnosing fulminant myocarditis, for which treatment with methylprednisolone at a dose of 500 mg for 3 days was started. presenting improvement with LVEF of 35%, however, she later presented septic shock of pulmonary origin, which led to the death of the patient.

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