Coronary Vasospasm Mimicking Acute Myocardial Infarction
Waqas Jehangir *
Department of Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861, United States
Sujith P. John
Ross University School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica
Shilpi Singh
Department of Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861, United States
Shuvendu Sen
Department of Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861, United States
Abdalla Yousif
Department of Internal Medicine, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861, United States
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Chest pain frightens many people into thinking that they might be having a heart attack. There are many causes of chest pain, few of which are life-threatening. One of the causes of chest pain is vasospasms, which is transient in nature and prolonged episodes can lead to tissue necrosis. Therefore, a prompt diagnosis and treatment is vital to the management. We are reporting a case of a young female presented with chest pain with no history of drug use, previous episodes, palpitations, and hypertension being her only risk factor found to have elevated Troponin I and was diagnosed with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), later found to have coronary vasospasm.
Keywords: Coronary vasospasm, NSTEMI, troponin, myocardial infarction.