The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is causing delayed ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) presentations associated with now unusual postinfarction complications. We describe a delayed (5-day) STEMI presentation because the patient feared contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. The patient experienced an extensive anterolateral STEMI complicated by subacute left ventricular free wall rupture that required a rapid surgical repair. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).
Keywords: COVID-19, coronavirus disease-2019; CT, computed tomography; ECG, electrocardiogram; LAD, left anterior descending; LV, left ventricular; LVFWR; LVFWR, left ventricular free wall rupture; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; RV, right ventricular; STEMI, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction; TTE, transthoracic echocardiogram; coronary angiography; coronavirus disease-2019; left ventricular aneurysm; myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention; pericardial effusion.
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