Abstract

We report a 40-year-old female with colon cancer, in its first session of treatment with capecitabine/oxaliplatin, who presented an event of acute coronary syndrome type myocardial acute infarction with ST inferior elevation in the first 30 days after initiation of adjuvant treatment, angiographically without lesions and echocardiographically presented impaired ventricular function. This case report illustrates myocardial damage induced by antimetabolites in an acute manner.

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