<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) has been defined as clinical presentation of an acute coronary syndrome with laboratory evidence of myocardial necrosis, but with coronary stenosis of less than 50% on coronary angiography. On the other side, myocarditis is an inflammatory response triggered by viral, bacterial, fungal, lymphocytic, eosinophilic, or autoimmune myocardial injury, which may be associated with elevated myocardial necrosis serum biomarkers. We present the case of a young male patient with acute chest pain, ST-segment elevation, and high-sensitivity troponin levels of 22,162 ng/L.</p></abstract>

Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) has been defined as clinical presentation of an acute coronary syndrome with laboratory evidence of myocardial necrosis, but with coronary stenosis of less than 50% on coronary angiography. On the other side, myocarditis is an inflammatory response triggered by viral, bacterial, fungal, lymphocytic, eosinophilic, or autoimmune myocardial injury, which may be associated with elevated myocardial necrosis serum biomarkers. We present the case of a young male patient with acute chest pain, ST-segment elevation, and high-sensitivity troponin levels of 22,162 ng/L.

A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis?

Center of Advanced Research in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) has been defined as clinical presentation of an acute coronary syndrome with laboratory...

A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis?

Published Online: Oct 19, 2020

Page range: 120 - 125

Received: Jul 08, 2020

Accepted: Aug 24, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0024

Keywords
myocarditis, MINOCA, acute myocardial injury, troponin levels

© 2020 Camelia Libenciuc et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Case of Acute Myocardial Injury – MINOCA or Myocarditis?

Published Online: Oct 19, 2020

Page range: 120 - 125

Received: Jul 08, 2020

Accepted: Aug 24, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2020-0024

Keywordsmyocarditis, MINOCA, acute myocardial injury, troponin levels

© 2020 Camelia Libenciuc et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
myocarditis, MINOCA, acute myocardial injury, troponin levels