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<p>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.</p>
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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.

Heart arrest due to systemic lupus erythematosus relapse: case report

Seminars in Cardiovascular Medicine

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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...

Heart arrest due to systemic lupus erythematosus relapse: case report

Published Online: Jul 05, 2022

Page range: 1 - 4

Received: Dec 09, 2021

Accepted: Feb 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/semcard-2022-0001

Keywords
myocardial infarction, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome

© 2022 Aistė Minderytė et al., published by Sciendo

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

Heart arrest due to systemic lupus erythematosus relapse: case report

Published Online: Jul 05, 2022

Page range: 1 - 4

Received: Dec 09, 2021

Accepted: Feb 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/semcard-2022-0001

Keywordsmyocardial infarction, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome

© 2022 Aistė Minderytė et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
myocardial infarction, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome