Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria

We describe a fatal case of imported malaria where the sole finding revealed at the postmortem evaluation was an acute lymphocytic myocarditis with myocardiolysis. This case recalls the potential importance of myocardial injury in the prognosis of malaria and prompts a reevaluation of current perspe...

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Autores principales: Costenaro, Paola, Benedetti, Paolo, Facchin, Chiara, Mengoli, Carlo, Pellizzer, Giampietro
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/202083
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author Costenaro, Paola
Benedetti, Paolo
Facchin, Chiara
Mengoli, Carlo
Pellizzer, Giampietro
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Benedetti, Paolo
Facchin, Chiara
Mengoli, Carlo
Pellizzer, Giampietro
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description We describe a fatal case of imported malaria where the sole finding revealed at the postmortem evaluation was an acute lymphocytic myocarditis with myocardiolysis. This case recalls the potential importance of myocardial injury in the prognosis of malaria and prompts a reevaluation of current perspectives on the pathogenesis of severe falciparum infection. In the light of this, we have reviewed the cases of cardiac complications in malaria published to date.
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spelling pubmed-30853332011-05-03 Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria Costenaro, Paola Benedetti, Paolo Facchin, Chiara Mengoli, Carlo Pellizzer, Giampietro Case Rep Med Case Report We describe a fatal case of imported malaria where the sole finding revealed at the postmortem evaluation was an acute lymphocytic myocarditis with myocardiolysis. This case recalls the potential importance of myocardial injury in the prognosis of malaria and prompts a reevaluation of current perspectives on the pathogenesis of severe falciparum infection. In the light of this, we have reviewed the cases of cardiac complications in malaria published to date. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3085333/ /pubmed/21541220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/202083 Text en Copyright © 2011 Paola Costenaro et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Costenaro, Paola
Benedetti, Paolo
Facchin, Chiara
Mengoli, Carlo
Pellizzer, Giampietro
Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title_full Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title_fullStr Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title_full_unstemmed Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title_short Fatal Myocarditis in Course of Plasmodium falciparum Infection: Case Report and Review of Cardiac Complications in Malaria
title_sort fatal myocarditis in course of plasmodium falciparum infection: case report and review of cardiac complications in malaria
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/202083
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