Journal of Advanced Practices in Nursing

COVID-19 Unmasking Coronary Artery Disease

Abstract

Azhar Ali

We report a case of coronary artery disease unmasked by COVID-19 in a 59 year old male patient who was admitted to medical HDU via emergency department primarily with COVID-19 pneumonia; developed chest pain on the third day of admission with EKG features consistent with infero-posterior ST-segment elevation MI. Troponin were significantly raised and bedside echocardiogram exhibited severely impaired LV systolic dysfunction with hypokinetic inferior and lateral walls.