A case report of myocarditis masquerading as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

We report the case of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with myocarditis, although initial echocardiographic imaging was consistent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The diagnosis of myocarditis was made with the findings of troponin elevation, presence of influenza A, and a more characteristic ele...

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Autores principales: Giafaglione, Jaclyn R., Morrison, Adam K., Nandi, Deipanjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7727897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33311924
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_122_19
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description We report the case of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with myocarditis, although initial echocardiographic imaging was consistent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The diagnosis of myocarditis was made with the findings of troponin elevation, presence of influenza A, and a more characteristic electrocardiogram. She eventually made a full recovery. Clinicians must be vigilant for such rare presentations of myocarditis masquerading as HCM.
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spelling pubmed-77278972020-12-11 A case report of myocarditis masquerading as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Giafaglione, Jaclyn R. Morrison, Adam K. Nandi, Deipanjan Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report We report the case of a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with myocarditis, although initial echocardiographic imaging was consistent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The diagnosis of myocarditis was made with the findings of troponin elevation, presence of influenza A, and a more characteristic electrocardiogram. She eventually made a full recovery. Clinicians must be vigilant for such rare presentations of myocarditis masquerading as HCM. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7727897/ /pubmed/33311924 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_122_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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