A clinical case of postinfaction aneurysm development, in a patient after COVID-19

Abstract

There is no data in the literature on the course of myocardial infarction in patients after COVID-19. Purpose to use a clinical example to present a case of postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm in a patient after undergoing COVID-19. Materials and methods: Patient T., 49 years old, was admitted to the federal state budgetary institution Federal Center of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Astrakhan) with complaints of pain in the heart with irradiation in the left shoulder and lower jaw. Considers himself ill for 7 days. It is known from anamnesis of life that the patient suffered COVID-19 two weeks ago. He has been suffering from arterial hypertension for a year. Results: A clinical example demonstrates that COVID-19 affects course of myocardial infarction: it is a risk factor for the development of post infarction aneurysm of the left ventricle in the early stages after a myocardial infarction. Myocardial infarction was accompanied by the formation of pathological Q waves, impaired conduction of the right leg of the Gis bundle a decrease in the ejection fraction of the left ventricle, acute occlusion of the right coronary artery. Postinfarction aneurysm of the left ventricle had an anterior-septal apical localization. In addition, the study of highly sensitive troponin T and N-terminal fragment of the pro-brain natriuretic peptide type B in patients with myocardial infarction complicated by postinfarction aneurysm of the left ventricle after COVID-19 is also important for determining the stages of development of pathological processes in this pathology, evaluating the effectiveness of therapy and the outcome of this pathology.