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Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female
An outbreak of a severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus that began in China in late 2019 has become a pandemic. We report the case of COVID-19-associated myocarditis in a 45-year-old healthy female who presented with solely gastrointestinal symptoms. Initial investigations revealed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614338 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12736 |
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author | Milla-Godoy, Gabriela C Park, Robin Jiang, Weizheng Hartkopf, Martin W Treadwell, Thomas |
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description | An outbreak of a severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus that began in China in late 2019 has become a pandemic. We report the case of COVID-19-associated myocarditis in a 45-year-old healthy female who presented with solely gastrointestinal symptoms. Initial investigations revealed ST-segment elevations in her electrocardiogram (EKG), elevated troponin levels, and a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Subsequently, she had rapid deterioration with the development of cardiogenic shock within hours of admission to a community hospital in Massachusetts. This case highlights an atypical presentation of COVID-19 with a fulminant course in this emerging and evolving disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-78837492021-02-18 Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female Milla-Godoy, Gabriela C Park, Robin Jiang, Weizheng Hartkopf, Martin W Treadwell, Thomas Cureus Cardiology An outbreak of a severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus that began in China in late 2019 has become a pandemic. We report the case of COVID-19-associated myocarditis in a 45-year-old healthy female who presented with solely gastrointestinal symptoms. Initial investigations revealed ST-segment elevations in her electrocardiogram (EKG), elevated troponin levels, and a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Subsequently, she had rapid deterioration with the development of cardiogenic shock within hours of admission to a community hospital in Massachusetts. This case highlights an atypical presentation of COVID-19 with a fulminant course in this emerging and evolving disease. Cureus 2021-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7883749/ /pubmed/33614338 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12736 Text en Copyright © 2021, Milla-Godoy 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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Milla-Godoy, Gabriela C Park, Robin Jiang, Weizheng Hartkopf, Martin W Treadwell, Thomas Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title | Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title_full | Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title_fullStr | Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title_full_unstemmed | Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title_short | Fulminant COVID-19-Associated Myocarditis in an Otherwise Healthy Female |
title_sort | fulminant covid-19-associated myocarditis in an otherwise healthy female |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7883749/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33614338 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12736 |
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