Fulminant heart failure due to giant cell myocarditis affecting the left ventricle

A 56-year-old woman, previously healthy, was hospitalized after an episode of ventricular tachycardia in the course of infection. In view of the fulminant course of heart failure the patient was connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system. After 3 weeks of treatment with ECMO t...

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Autores principales: Senderek, Tomasz, Małecka, Barbara, Ząbek, Andrzej, Rudnicka-Sosin, Lucyna, Wierzbicki, Karol, Przybyłowski, Piotr, Bednarek, Jacek, Lelakowski, Jacek
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Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26677392
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pwki.2015.55613
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author Senderek, Tomasz
Małecka, Barbara
Ząbek, Andrzej
Rudnicka-Sosin, Lucyna
Wierzbicki, Karol
Przybyłowski, Piotr
Bednarek, Jacek
Lelakowski, Jacek
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Małecka, Barbara
Ząbek, Andrzej
Rudnicka-Sosin, Lucyna
Wierzbicki, Karol
Przybyłowski, Piotr
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Lelakowski, Jacek
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description A 56-year-old woman, previously healthy, was hospitalized after an episode of ventricular tachycardia in the course of infection. In view of the fulminant course of heart failure the patient was connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system. After 3 weeks of treatment with ECMO the patient received a heart transplant. A histopathological examination of the tissues of the explanted heart revealed giant cell myocarditis. The patient was treated with immunosuppression based on induction therapy followed by a standard regimen with steroids. Currently, the patient remains in good general condition with an left ventricular ejection fraction of 60%.
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spelling pubmed-46798102015-12-16 Fulminant heart failure due to giant cell myocarditis affecting the left ventricle Senderek, Tomasz Małecka, Barbara Ząbek, Andrzej Rudnicka-Sosin, Lucyna Wierzbicki, Karol Przybyłowski, Piotr Bednarek, Jacek Lelakowski, Jacek Postepy Kardiol Interwencyjnej Case Report A 56-year-old woman, previously healthy, was hospitalized after an episode of ventricular tachycardia in the course of infection. In view of the fulminant course of heart failure the patient was connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system. After 3 weeks of treatment with ECMO the patient received a heart transplant. A histopathological examination of the tissues of the explanted heart revealed giant cell myocarditis. The patient was treated with immunosuppression based on induction therapy followed by a standard regimen with steroids. Currently, the patient remains in good general condition with an left ventricular ejection fraction of 60%. Termedia Publishing House 2015-01-12 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4679810/ /pubmed/26677392 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pwki.2015.55613 Text en Copyright © 2015 Termedia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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Przybyłowski, Piotr
Bednarek, Jacek
Lelakowski, Jacek
Fulminant heart failure due to giant cell myocarditis affecting the left ventricle
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/pwki.2015.55613
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