Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction

A previously healthy man presented with inferior myocardial infarction and recent upper respiratory tract infection. Bacteremia was detected and treated; however, the patient developed refractory polymorphic ventricular tachycardia storm and shock. Clinical autopsy revealed the diagnosis of isolated...

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Autores principales: Trpkov, Cvetan, Chiu, Michael, Kang, Eun-Young, Box, Adrian, Grant, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Imaging Vignette
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.03.023
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author Trpkov, Cvetan
Chiu, Michael
Kang, Eun-Young
Box, Adrian
Grant, Andrew
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description A previously healthy man presented with inferior myocardial infarction and recent upper respiratory tract infection. Bacteremia was detected and treated; however, the patient developed refractory polymorphic ventricular tachycardia storm and shock. Clinical autopsy revealed the diagnosis of isolated bacterial myocarditis. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)
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spelling pubmed-83020252021-07-26 Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction Trpkov, Cvetan Chiu, Michael Kang, Eun-Young Box, Adrian Grant, Andrew JACC Case Rep Imaging Vignette A previously healthy man presented with inferior myocardial infarction and recent upper respiratory tract infection. Bacteremia was detected and treated; however, the patient developed refractory polymorphic ventricular tachycardia storm and shock. Clinical autopsy revealed the diagnosis of isolated bacterial myocarditis. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.) Elsevier 2020-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8302025/ /pubmed/34317358 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.03.023 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Imaging Vignette
Trpkov, Cvetan
Chiu, Michael
Kang, Eun-Young
Box, Adrian
Grant, Andrew
Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title_full Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title_fullStr Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title_full_unstemmed Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title_short Fulminant Bacterial Myocarditis Presenting as Myocardial Infarction
title_sort fulminant bacterial myocarditis presenting as myocardial infarction
topic Imaging Vignette
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.03.023
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