An Atypical Presentation of Fulminant Myocarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection

The potential etiologies of fulminant myocarditis include autoimmune diseases, infections, drug hypersensitivity, and drug/toxin reactions. We present an atypical case of fulminant myocarditis in a patient with a history of diabetic ketoacidosis with recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, wh...

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Autores principales: Richard, Ivan, Robinson, Bracha, Dawson, Amanda, Aya, Ashley, Ali, Rana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32802614
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9179
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description The potential etiologies of fulminant myocarditis include autoimmune diseases, infections, drug hypersensitivity, and drug/toxin reactions. We present an atypical case of fulminant myocarditis in a patient with a history of diabetic ketoacidosis with recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, who presented with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient improved with a three-day course of methylprednisolone 1 gram daily.
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spelling pubmed-74258262020-08-14 An Atypical Presentation of Fulminant Myocarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection Richard, Ivan Robinson, Bracha Dawson, Amanda Aya, Ashley Ali, Rana Cureus Cardiology The potential etiologies of fulminant myocarditis include autoimmune diseases, infections, drug hypersensitivity, and drug/toxin reactions. We present an atypical case of fulminant myocarditis in a patient with a history of diabetic ketoacidosis with recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, who presented with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient improved with a three-day course of methylprednisolone 1 gram daily. Cureus 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7425826/ /pubmed/32802614 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9179 Text en Copyright © 2020, Richard et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Richard, Ivan
Robinson, Bracha
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Aya, Ashley
Ali, Rana
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title An Atypical Presentation of Fulminant Myocarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
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title_fullStr An Atypical Presentation of Fulminant Myocarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
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title_short An Atypical Presentation of Fulminant Myocarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_sort atypical presentation of fulminant myocarditis secondary to covid-19 infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32802614
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9179
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