Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl

Cardiac infection with Toxocara is rarely diagnosed, especially in children, and corresponding cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has not been reported. We present a probable case, a 9-year-old girl with myopericarditis, eosinophilia, positive Toxocara serology, and CMR findings consistent wit...

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Autores principales: Gearhart, Addison, Savage, Timothy J., Sandora, Thomas J., Lamb, Gabriella S., Powell, Andrew J., Breitbart, Roger E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5526968
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author Gearhart, Addison
Savage, Timothy J.
Sandora, Thomas J.
Lamb, Gabriella S.
Powell, Andrew J.
Breitbart, Roger E.
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description Cardiac infection with Toxocara is rarely diagnosed, especially in children, and corresponding cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has not been reported. We present a probable case, a 9-year-old girl with myopericarditis, eosinophilia, positive Toxocara serology, and CMR findings consistent with myocardial edema.
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spelling pubmed-81103982021-05-17 Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl Gearhart, Addison Savage, Timothy J. Sandora, Thomas J. Lamb, Gabriella S. Powell, Andrew J. Breitbart, Roger E. Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Cardiac infection with Toxocara is rarely diagnosed, especially in children, and corresponding cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has not been reported. We present a probable case, a 9-year-old girl with myopericarditis, eosinophilia, positive Toxocara serology, and CMR findings consistent with myocardial edema. Hindawi 2021-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8110398/ /pubmed/34007503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5526968 Text en Copyright © 2021 Addison Gearhart et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title_full Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title_fullStr Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title_full_unstemmed Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title_short Toxocara Myopericarditis and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Young Girl
title_sort toxocara myopericarditis and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in a young girl
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5526968
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