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Cureus
. 2023 Oct 7;15(10):e46655.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.46655. eCollection 2023 Oct. Myopericarditis as a Delayed Complication of COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report
Marvi Moreno[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Brianna Yee[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Lubaba Haque[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Kachon Lei[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
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Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardial layers. Myopericarditis is diagnosed when this inflammation involves the myocardium, which is marked by elevated serum cardiac enzymes. With these two pathologies sharing overlaps in etiology, we present a case of a young patient with a recent history of COVID-19 infection who presented with pleuritic and positional chest pain with troponin I elevation and serial ECG changes attributed to myopericarditis as a post-viral sequela of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) infection. This case demonstrates the importance of identifying and managing the potential cardiac complications in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, regardless of age or symptom onset.
Keywords: cardiac arrythmia; cardiomyopathy; chest pain; covid-19; myopericarditis; viral pericarditis.
. 2023 Oct 7;15(10):e46655.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.46655. eCollection 2023 Oct. Myopericarditis as a Delayed Complication of COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report
Marvi Moreno[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Brianna Yee[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Lubaba Haque[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Kachon Lei[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 37942379
- PMCID: PMC10627796
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.46655
Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardial layers. Myopericarditis is diagnosed when this inflammation involves the myocardium, which is marked by elevated serum cardiac enzymes. With these two pathologies sharing overlaps in etiology, we present a case of a young patient with a recent history of COVID-19 infection who presented with pleuritic and positional chest pain with troponin I elevation and serial ECG changes attributed to myopericarditis as a post-viral sequela of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) infection. This case demonstrates the importance of identifying and managing the potential cardiac complications in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, regardless of age or symptom onset.
Keywords: cardiac arrythmia; cardiomyopathy; chest pain; covid-19; myopericarditis; viral pericarditis.