Highlights the diagnostic challenge and utility of histopathologic and electron microscopic examination in determining the etiology of cardiac tamponade in a patient with concurrent myocardial infarction and COVID-19.
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Histopathology and electron microscopy clarify etiology in post-MI tamponade with COVID-19; leaves open incidence and mechanisms in broader populations.
We present the case of a patient with myocardial infarction and COVID-19 disease who developed hemorrhagic pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. The differential diagnosis included post-infarction pericarditis and mechanical complications, thrombolysis, Dressler syndrome, and viral pericarditis. The histopathologic examination of the pericardial tissue sample and electron microscopic examination established the diagnosis. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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