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Timely identification and treatment of STEMI is crucial to reduce morbidity and mortality, but STEMI can occasionally be caused by other pathologies such as aortic dissection.
Case Report (n=1)
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Pan-aortic dissection can present with a myriad of catastrophic end-organ manifestations, including STEMI, stroke, and paraplegia, requiring a high index of clinical suspicion for timely diagnosis.
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Prompts consideration of pan-aortic dissection in STEMI with stroke and paraplegia; case report leaves optimal strategies open.
Background: Identifying and treating ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a timely manner is crucial in reducing the patient's morbidity and mortality. However, sometimes STEMI can be caused by other pathologies such as aortic/coronary dissection, thromboembolism, septic emboli, or trauma. We present a case of a pan-aortic dissection (AD) with multi-system organ failure and shock presenting as anterior spinal cord syndrome, inferior myocardial infarction and stroke.
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Lee et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Pan-Aortic Dissection (n=1). Pan-aortic dissection was evaluated on Clinical outcome.
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