Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection

A 41-year-old woman who was diagnosed with myocarditis presented eosinophilia. Since the antibody against Toxocara canis (T. canis) was positive, we diagnosed that she had visceral larva migrans due to T. canis associated with myocarditis. She was treated with oral albendazole and prednisolone for t...

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Autores principales: Kim, Ji Hee, Chung, Woo-Baek, Chang, Kyung-Yoon, Ko, Sun-Young, Park, Mi-Hee, Sa, Young-Kyoung, Choi, Yun-Seok, Park, Chul-Soo, Lee, Man-Young
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Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185659
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.150
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author Kim, Ji Hee
Chung, Woo-Baek
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Ko, Sun-Young
Park, Mi-Hee
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description A 41-year-old woman who was diagnosed with myocarditis presented eosinophilia. Since the antibody against Toxocara canis (T. canis) was positive, we diagnosed that she had visceral larva migrans due to T. canis associated with myocarditis. She was treated with oral albendazole and prednisolone for two weeks, eosinophil count and hepatic enzymes were normalized after completion of treatment. This is the first report of myocarditis caused by T. canis infection in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-34983132012-11-26 Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection Kim, Ji Hee Chung, Woo-Baek Chang, Kyung-Yoon Ko, Sun-Young Park, Mi-Hee Sa, Young-Kyoung Choi, Yun-Seok Park, Chul-Soo Lee, Man-Young J Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report A 41-year-old woman who was diagnosed with myocarditis presented eosinophilia. Since the antibody against Toxocara canis (T. canis) was positive, we diagnosed that she had visceral larva migrans due to T. canis associated with myocarditis. She was treated with oral albendazole and prednisolone for two weeks, eosinophil count and hepatic enzymes were normalized after completion of treatment. This is the first report of myocarditis caused by T. canis infection in Korea. Korean Society of Echocardiography 2012-09 2012-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3498313/ /pubmed/23185659 http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.150 Text en Copyright © 2012 Korean Society of Echocardiography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kim, Ji Hee
Chung, Woo-Baek
Chang, Kyung-Yoon
Ko, Sun-Young
Park, Mi-Hee
Sa, Young-Kyoung
Choi, Yun-Seok
Park, Chul-Soo
Lee, Man-Young
Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title_full Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title_fullStr Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title_full_unstemmed Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title_short Eosinophilic Myocarditis Associated with Visceral Larva Migrans Caused by Toxocara Canis Infection
title_sort eosinophilic myocarditis associated with visceral larva migrans caused by toxocara canis infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185659
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2012.20.3.150
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