Case 4/2014 – A 66-Year-Old Man with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Death in Asystole after Primary Coronary Angioplasty

Clinical Aspects

This clinical case reports on a 66-year-old hypertensive patient, long-term smoker, who sought medical care due to acute chest pain. The main diagnostic hypothesis for this clinical case is of acute coronary syndrome.

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for seeking emergency care and remains a challenge for the clinician, due to the difficulty in differentiating between non-emergency diagnoses and those of high morbidity and mortality, such as acute coronary syndrome (ACS), aortic dissection and pulmonary thromboembolism.

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