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. 1972 Apr 22;106(8):898-899, 901.

Trichinosis presenting as acute myocardial infarction

Gordon J Kirschberg
PMCID: PMC1940622  PMID: 5026725

Abstract

A 20-year-old male patient is presented as a case of trichinous myocarditis with clinical symptoms and electrocardiographic evidence of an acute inferior myocardial infarction. He recovered rapidly and completely without any specific therapy. This seems to be a distinct rarity, having never been previously reported, but is of importance because of the almost uniformly excellent prognosis in this condition in contradistinction to that of a bona fide myocardial infarction occurring at this age.

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