title: Acute myocarditis triggering coronary spasm and mimicking acute myocardial infarction.
abstract: A 24-year-old healthy man consulted to our center because of typical on-and-off chest-pain and an electrocardiogram showing ST-segment elevation in inferior leads. An urgent coronary angiography showed angiographically normal coronary arteries. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging confirmed acute myocarditis. Although acute myocarditis triggering coronary spasm is an uncommon association, it is important to recognize it, particularly for the management for those patients presenting with ST-segment elevation and suspect myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronary arteries. The present report highlights the role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to identify acute myocarditis as the underlying cause.
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bagur
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Béliveau
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Potvin
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Levesque
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fillion
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Larose
authors.affiliation: Andreas Kumar, Rodrigo Bagur, Patrick Béliveau, Jean-Michel Potvin, Pierre Levesque, Nancy Fillion, Benoit Tremblay, Valérie Gaudreault, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Quebec University Hospital Centre, Quebec, G1R 2J6, Canada.
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gaudreault
keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary spasm; Myocardial infarction; Myocarditis