Acute Myopericarditis Induced by Subacute Thyroiditis: A Very Rare Association

Overview

Journal Heart Views

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2022 Mar 25

PMID 35330647

Authors

Yaser Alahmad

Rohit Sharma

Sundus Sardar

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Abstract

We present the case of a 38-year-old male with a history of acute chest pain associated with electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation and levels of myocardial damage markers. Few studies have evaluated chest pain and elevated troponin T during subacute thyroiditis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the reported case of myopericarditis associated with increased thyroid hormones in the bloodstream and accompanied by a significant increase in troponin T and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings of myopericarditis during the acute phase of subacute thyroiditis.

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