A case of spontaneous left-sided pneumothorax with ECG changes resembling acute myocardial infarction

Int J Cardiol. 1996 Oct 11;56(2):197-9. doi: 10.1016/0167-5273(96)02739-8.

Abstract

This is a report on a patient who developed spontaneous left-sided pneumothorax in postoperative setting which was misdiagnosed as acute myocardial infarction because of ECG changes resembling acute anterior myocardial infarction combined with a history of retrosternal chest pain and hemodynamic instability.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Chest Pain / diagnosis
  • Chest Pain / physiopathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Obstructive / complications
  • Male
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Myocardial Infarction / physiopathology
  • Pneumothorax / diagnosis*
  • Pneumothorax / physiopathology
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Pulmonary Emphysema / complications
  • Rectal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Rectum / surgery