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COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis
There is increasing evidence of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 cases, with a broad range of clinical manifestations spanning from acute life-threatening conditions such as ventricular dysrhythmias, myocarditis, acute myocardial ischemia and pulmonary thromboembolism to long-term cardiovascular sequ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10452198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37626600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11082101 |
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author | Pierri, Alessandro Gagno, Giulia Fluca, Alessandra Radaelli, Davide Bonuccelli, Diana Giusti, Laura Bulfoni, Michela Beltrami, Antonio P. Aleksova, Aneta D’Errico, Stefano |
author_facet | Pierri, Alessandro Gagno, Giulia Fluca, Alessandra Radaelli, Davide Bonuccelli, Diana Giusti, Laura Bulfoni, Michela Beltrami, Antonio P. Aleksova, Aneta D’Errico, Stefano |
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description | There is increasing evidence of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 cases, with a broad range of clinical manifestations spanning from acute life-threatening conditions such as ventricular dysrhythmias, myocarditis, acute myocardial ischemia and pulmonary thromboembolism to long-term cardiovascular sequelae. In particular, acute myocarditis represents an uncommon but frightening complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even if many reports of SARS CoV-2 myocarditis are present in the literature, the majority of them lacks histological confirmation of cardiac injury. Here, we report a case of a young lady, who died suddenly a few days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, whose microscopic and genetics features suggested a direct cardiac involvement compatible with fulminant myocarditis. |
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spelling | pubmed-104521982023-08-26 COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis Pierri, Alessandro Gagno, Giulia Fluca, Alessandra Radaelli, Davide Bonuccelli, Diana Giusti, Laura Bulfoni, Michela Beltrami, Antonio P. Aleksova, Aneta D’Errico, Stefano Biomedicines Case Report There is increasing evidence of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 cases, with a broad range of clinical manifestations spanning from acute life-threatening conditions such as ventricular dysrhythmias, myocarditis, acute myocardial ischemia and pulmonary thromboembolism to long-term cardiovascular sequelae. In particular, acute myocarditis represents an uncommon but frightening complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even if many reports of SARS CoV-2 myocarditis are present in the literature, the majority of them lacks histological confirmation of cardiac injury. Here, we report a case of a young lady, who died suddenly a few days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, whose microscopic and genetics features suggested a direct cardiac involvement compatible with fulminant myocarditis. MDPI 2023-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10452198/ /pubmed/37626600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11082101 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Pierri, Alessandro Gagno, Giulia Fluca, Alessandra Radaelli, Davide Bonuccelli, Diana Giusti, Laura Bulfoni, Michela Beltrami, Antonio P. Aleksova, Aneta D’Errico, Stefano COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title | COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title_full | COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title_fullStr | COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title_short | COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis |
title_sort | covid-19-related myocarditis: are we there yet? a case report of covid-19-related fulminant myocarditis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10452198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37626600 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11082101 |
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