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Acute myocardial infarction in a child with nephrotic syndrome
Salma Charfeddine1, Chedy Yousfi1, Bayene Maalej2
1Cardiology Department, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia; University of Medicine of Sfax, Tunisia.
Abstract:
Myocardial infarction is very rare in children. It can have different etiologies such as thromboembolism caused by nephrotic syndrome (NS). We report the case of a 15 year old boy with NS, diagnosed at the age of 7 year, admitted for prolonged chest pain. The final diagnosis was ST-elevation myocardial infarction with thromboembolism in the left anterior descending artery due to hypercoagulability of NS. This association is very uncommon and the management of both conditions presents a challenge.
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