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The man is the fourth case of COVID-19 since early April who died of heart problems and whose cause of death is unrelated to the coronavirus. His death was not added to Singapore’s official COVID-19 death toll.
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SINGAPORE: A 53-year-old man who died of a heart attack due to a blood clot was confirmed to have COVID-19 after his death, the Health Ministry (MOH) said Monday (May 11).
The Indian citizen was taken to the emergency department of Sengkang General Hospital on Saturday after suffering cardiac arrest, the Health Ministry said in its daily update.
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He died on Saturday and was confirmed to have the coronavirus on the Sunday after his death.
“The cause of death is ruptured myocardial infarction due to coronary thrombosis,” said the health ministry.
It is the fourth case of COVID-19 since early April that died of heart problems and whose cause of death is unrelated to COVID-19. His death was not added to the official death toll.
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“Only the cases in which the attending physician or pathologist assigns the primary or underlying cause of death as a consequence of COVID-19 infection will be added to the COVID-19 death count,” the Health Ministry said.
“This is consistent with international practice to classify deaths.”
Coronary thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot within a heart blood vessel, which restricts blood flow. This can lead to a heart attack, the medical term for a heart attack, which occurs when blood flow slows down or stops in part of the heart.
It is different from cardiac arrest, which is when the heart is unable to pump effectively, resulting in a sudden loss of blood flow.
“In 2018, 86 male foreign workers aged 25-59 died from heart disease in Singapore,” the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
Reports from doctors in China, Europe, and the United States have pointed to a dangerous complication of COVID-19: blood clotting.
These “thrombotic events” occur for a variety of reasons among intensive care patients, but the rates among COVID-19 patients are much higher than would be expected, AFP reported.
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A recent article from the Netherlands in the journal Thrombosis Research found that 31 percent of 184 patients suffered thrombotic complications, a number the researchers rated “remarkably high” even if extreme consequences, such as amputation, are rare.
A DEATH OF COVID-19
The Ministry of Health reported on Monday a death number 21 due to COVID-19.
Case 1305, a 68-year-old Singaporean, died Monday of complications from COVID-19.
It was confirmed that he had the coronavirus on April 5 and had a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia, the Ministry of Health said.
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The man is linked to two other patients with COVID-19: cases 1660 and 3984.
Case 1660 is a 65-year-old Singaporean woman who tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8. It is protected at the National Center for Infectious Diseases.
Case 3984 is a seven-year-old Singaporean boy who was confirmed to have the coronavirus on April 15. He was discharged after making a full recovery.
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