ABSTRACT

The coronavirus 19 pandemic causes heavy strain on the healthcare systems of countries worldwide. During the pandemic, fear of contracting the infection caused the patients with cardiovascular complaints to refrain from hospital admittance. This reaction resulted in severe mechanical complications of myocardial infarction. In our hospital, we had two ventricular septal ruptures (VSR) as a complication of late admitted inferior myocardial infarction. Having two VSR cases within three days was unusual for us due to the decreased incidence of VSR in the primary PCI era. However, two cases are not enough to conclude that mechanical complications of myocardial infarction increased during the pandemic, similar case reports from different countries and statements of senior interventional cardiologists support this assertion