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Acute Myocardial Infarction in Anaphylactic Shock After an Ant Bite: Case Report.

Yun-Wu Deng1, Yi-Wei Tsuei2.   

Abstract

A 72-year-old woman with an ant bite on her hand presented with anaphylaxis at the scene and chest pain in the emergency department.Electrocardiography showed a myocardial infarction with inferior and lateral wall ST elevation. She received percutaneous coronary intervention. The results revealed left anterior descending branch and right coronary artery obstruction. After stenting, she was discharged in good condition. Kounis syndrome was diagnosed. Emergency physicians should be alert to acute coronary syndrome following anaphylaxis.
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Keywords:  Kounis syndrome; allergy; anaphylaxis; myocardial infarction

Year:  2020        PMID： 33489739      PMCID： PMC7814205          DOI： 10.6705/j.jacme.202012_10(4).0004

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Acute Med        ISSN： 2211-5587


  4 in total

1.  Acute coronary syndrome in cisatracurium-induced anaphylactic shock: Kounis syndrome.

Authors:  Ya-Ling Yang; Hui-Wen Huang; Hon-Kan Yip; Bruno Jawan; Chia-Chih Tseng; Hsiao-Feng Lu
Journal:  Acta Anaesthesiol Taiwan       Date:  2008-12

Review 2.  Kounis syndrome: A review article on epidemiology, diagnostic findings, management and complications of allergic acute coronary syndrome.

Authors:  Mahmoud Abdelghany; Rogin Subedi; Siddharth Shah; Hani Kozman
Journal:  Int J Cardiol       Date:  2017-01-27       Impact factor: 4.164

3.  Epinephrine in anaphylaxis: higher risk of cardiovascular complications and overdose after administration of intravenous bolus epinephrine compared with intramuscular epinephrine.

Authors:  Ronna L Campbell; M Fernanda Bellolio; Benjamin D Knutson; Venkatesh R Bellamkonda; Martin G Fedko; David M Nestler; Erik P Hess
Journal:  J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract       Date:  2014-08-29

Review 4.  Histamine-induced coronary artery spasm: the concept of allergic angina.

Authors:  N G Kounis; G M Zavras
Journal:  Br J Clin Pract       Date:  1991
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