Acute Myocarditis Mimicking Lateral Myocardial Infarction

• DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0803600520
• Publication Date: 2019-01-23T04:00:03Z
• Authors: N. Mottard; N. Mewton; E. Bonnefoy; M. Abdellaoui; D. Revel; G. Kirkorian
• Keywords: Coronary care unit; Acute myocarditis

We report a case of myocarditis mimicking acute lateral myocardial infarction and treated as such initially, which was complicated by ventricular fibrillation few hours after admission to the intensive care unit. The correct diagnosis rapidly made using low-dose delayed-enhanced cardiac multidetector computed tomography scan performed immediately normal coronary angiogram, demonstrating typical late hyperenhancement good correlation with delayed enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. This suggests that can be accurately diagnosed in an emergency setting. other lesson from this is patients presenting severe clinical symptoms, important ECG signs high enzyme levels should closely monitored for at least 72 hours, even when has been excluded.