Mechanical complications of Myocardial Infarction during Covid-19 Pandemic: An Italian single-Centre experience: Heart ruptures in covid-19 era

COVID-19 pandemic triggered in many patients the fear to go to the emergency rooms in order to avoid a possible infection This phenomenon caused a significant reduction in acute coronary syndrome-related interventional procedures with a subsequent increase in critical hospitalizations and post-infarction mechanical complications A case series of cardiac ruptures during the COVID-19 lockdown and the surgical treatment of a huge post-ischemic cardiac pseudoaneurysm complicated by a “contained” free wall rupture are presented