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