Anaphylactic shock as the cause of myocardial infarction in a woman with normal coronary arteries

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
J. Colom ◽  
E. Alcoceba ◽  
M.A. Ruiz ◽  
A. Bonet ◽  
E. Borreguero ◽  
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Author(s):  
José I Morgado Garcia-Polavieja ◽  
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Margarita Castillo Paredes ◽  
Enrique López Herrero ◽  
Francisco Javier Fernández López ◽  
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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. Keywords: Kounis syndrome; Allergic myocardial infarction; Myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries.


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Author(s):  
Edward H. Schuster ◽  
Stephen C. Achuff ◽  
William R. Bell ◽  
Bernadine H. Bulkley

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Luigi Baratta ◽  
Luigi Tubani ◽  
Vincenzina Golluscio ◽  
Massimo Delfino ◽  
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