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We reported the case of a 33-year-old male who presented a dengue infection complicated by spontaneous coronary artery intramural hematoma associated with acute myocarditis. The initial presentation was a typical acute coronary syndrome with ST-segment elevation. Coronary angiography and endocoronary optical coherence tomography confirmed the diagnosis of left anterior descending artery intramural hematoma. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed not only typical ischaemic injury but also lesions of acute myocarditis confirmed by native T1- and T2-mapping, sub-epicardial late gadolinium enhancement and pericardial effusion. This case highlights the multiple cardiac damages caused by dengue virus, their possible association (coincidental or linked?), and the impact of multimodal imaging on diagnosis and management.
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Dengue , Myocarditis , Male , Humans , Adult , Myocarditis/complications , Myocarditis/diagnosis , Contrast Media , Gadolinium , Hematoma/complications , Hematoma/diagnosis , Dengue/complications , Dengue/diagnosisABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of pulmonary embolism in returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19. All returning travelers to Reunion Island with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 underwent computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and were included in the cohort. Thirty-five patients were returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 and had recently returned from one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak (mainly from France and Comoros archipelago). Five patients (14.3%) were found to have pulmonary embolism and two (5.9%) were incidentally found to have deep vein thrombosis on CTPA. Patients with pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis had higher D-dimer levels than those without pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (P = 0.04). Returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 should be systematically screened for pulmonary embolism.
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Coronavirus Infections/diagnostic imaging , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnostic imaging , Pulmonary Embolism/diagnostic imaging , Venous Thrombosis/diagnostic imaging , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Angiography , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Comoros , Coronavirus Infections/complications , Female , Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products/analysis , France , Humans , Hypoxia/virology , Lung/diagnostic imaging , Lung/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/complications , Pulmonary Embolism/virology , Reunion , SARS-CoV-2 , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Travel , Venous Thrombosis/virologyABSTRACT
Asymptomatic isolated congenital left ventricular diverticulum: a cardiac MRI report about a 19-year-old man.