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  Vol. 163 No. 9, May 12, 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Right Ventricular Infarction in a Patient With Acute Pulmonary Embolism and Normal Coronary Arteries

Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1110-1111.

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Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is still one of the major causes of in-hospital mortality. Myocardial ischemia and even right ventricular (RV) infarction are found at autopsy in patients who die of massive APE. A case series reported transmural RV necrosis in 4 patients and subendocardial necrosis in 2 others.1 Therefore, it was suggested that myocardial damage of the right ventricle with its irreversible failure may be one of the mechanisms precipitating a fatal outcome. Recently, plasma levels of cardiac troponin T (cTnT)2 and cardiac troponin I (cTnI),3 markers of myocardial injury, were found to be elevated in some patients with APE. We describe a patient with massive APE and normal coronary arteries in whom RV strain caused myocardial injury and abnormal plasma troponin levels suggested an acute coronary syndrome.

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A 67-year-old obese woman with a history of well-controlled essential hypertension was referred to our hospital after severe anginal chest pain . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Corresponding author: Piotr Pruszczyk, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, Medical University of Warsaw, Banacha 1A, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland(e-mail: pprusz@amwaw.edu.pl).



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