scholarly journals Acute myocardial infarction and allergy, causal or casual relationship?

Author(s):  
José I Morgado Garcia-Polavieja ◽  
◽  
Margarita Castillo Paredes ◽  
Enrique López Herrero ◽  
Francisco Javier Fernández López ◽  
...  

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.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 01-04
Author(s):  
José Polavieja

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. LEARNING OBJECTIVE An exceptional clinical case is presented illustrating an acute myocardial infarction related to a severe allergic reaction. In addition, a review of the optimal management of this entity is carried out. We intend to make this entity known, which should be suspected in the appropriate clinical setting


1980 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H. Schuster ◽  
Stephen C. Achuff ◽  
William R. Bell ◽  
Bernadine H. Bulkley

2014 ◽  
Vol 172 (2) ◽  
pp. e346-e347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hanna ◽  
Patricia O'Gorman ◽  
Johanne Neill ◽  
Alex Chaudhuri ◽  
Christian Hamilton-Craig ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-49
Author(s):  
J. Colom ◽  
E. Alcoceba ◽  
M.A. Ruiz ◽  
A. Bonet ◽  
E. Borreguero ◽  
...  

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 184-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Bourke ◽  
G. Wilkes ◽  
D.L.J. Maloney ◽  
G. Terry

A case is described in which acute myocardial infarction and pulmonary oedema occurred in a patient with normal coronary arteries as the result of metabolically induced coronary insufficiency in a phaeochromocytomic crisis.


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