Introduction:

acute infections by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) caused a global pandemic since the first cases appeared in Wuhan (China) in December 2019.

Objective:

to determine the correlation between COVID-19 infection and some clinical variables at the onset of acute coronary syndrome.

Materials and methods: a retrospective descriptive study was carried out in 85 patients who were admitted in the Emergent Intensive Care Unit of the Clinical Surgical University Hospital Comandante Faustino Perez Hernandez, with diagnosis of COVID-19 infection, in the period from July to September 2021. During their clinical evolution, 16 of them had acute coronary syndrome. The Chi-square test and statistical significance (p < 0.05) were applied.

Results:

the total of patients with acute coronary syndrome during the evolution of the COVID-19 infection represented 18.82%. White-skinned and female people predominated in this group, for 51.31% (p < 0.02). Acute coronary syndrome appeared after 10 days of the COVID-19 infection evolution, associated to oxygenation disorders. 62.5% of the patients were treated with reservoir masks. Most of the patients were transferred alive to progressive care units.

Conclusions:

a significant statistic association was observed between white women and the onset of acute coronary syndrome in the course of COVID-19 infection, in the Emergent Intensive Care Unit of Matanzas hospital.

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