Management of Recurrent Myocarditis Due to Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges

We present the case of a 25-year-old woman with desmoplakin cardiomyopathy–related myocarditis. Her high-sensitivity troponin and symptoms improved with pulse steroid therapy and mycophenolate mofetil. The literature lacks data to effectively guide the management of recurrent myocarditis in desmopla...

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Autores principales: Ghawanmeh, Malik, Simon Frances, Blanca, Kerai, Ajay, Patel, Parth, Du, Jonathan, Kumar, Preetham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8743810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.10.005
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author Ghawanmeh, Malik
Simon Frances, Blanca
Kerai, Ajay
Patel, Parth
Du, Jonathan
Kumar, Preetham
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description We present the case of a 25-year-old woman with desmoplakin cardiomyopathy–related myocarditis. Her high-sensitivity troponin and symptoms improved with pulse steroid therapy and mycophenolate mofetil. The literature lacks data to effectively guide the management of recurrent myocarditis in desmoplakin cardiomyopathy. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-87438102022-01-13 Management of Recurrent Myocarditis Due to Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges Ghawanmeh, Malik Simon Frances, Blanca Kerai, Ajay Patel, Parth Du, Jonathan Kumar, Preetham JACC Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a 25-year-old woman with desmoplakin cardiomyopathy–related myocarditis. Her high-sensitivity troponin and symptoms improved with pulse steroid therapy and mycophenolate mofetil. The literature lacks data to effectively guide the management of recurrent myocarditis in desmoplakin cardiomyopathy. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8743810/ /pubmed/35036946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.10.005 Text en © 2022 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/).
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