| Title |
Heart arrest due to systemic lupus erythematosus relapse: case report / |
| Authors |
Minderytė, Aistė ; Badarienė, Jolita ; Čypienė, Alma ; Petrauskienė, Birutė ; Burneikaitė, Greta ; Dadonienė, Jolanta |
| DOI |
10.2478/semcard-2022-0001 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Seminars in cardiovascular medicine.. Warsaw : De Gruyter Poland. 2022, vol. 27, iss. 1, p. 1-4.. eISSN 1822-7767 |
| Keywords [eng] |
myocardial infarction ; systemic lupus erythematosus ; antiphospholipid syndrome |
| Abstract [eng] |
We report a case of a 36-year-old man who was admitted to the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros clinics emergency department suffering from acute chest pain and experienced cardiac arrest. Changes in the electrocardiogram, elevated troponin level, and clinical symptoms lead to ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI) diagnosis. The patient was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). He was in a remission state of SLE and was not taking drugs for one year before MI happened. SLE may be associated with antiphospholipid syndrome, which can cause cardiovascular complications such as MI. Although it is a usual practice to stop treatment in remission, in some cases, clinicians should consider continuing SLE treatment to avoid cardiovascular complications. In this case, the exacerbation of SLE and myocardial infarction occurred almost simultaneously with no previous thrombotic or cardiovascular events. |
| Published |
Warsaw : De Gruyter Poland |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2022 |
| CC license |
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