An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus

A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a fever, nausea, diarrhea, and back pain. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was transferred to the intensive-care unit for mechanical circulatory support and antibiotics, but she died 40 hours after admission. Autopsy findings showed ne...

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Autores principales: Nakashima, Ryuta, Kotoku, Munenori, Gamachi, Ayako, Inagaki, Nobuhiro, Kasaoka, Shunji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544955
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5498-20
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author Nakashima, Ryuta
Kotoku, Munenori
Gamachi, Ayako
Inagaki, Nobuhiro
Kasaoka, Shunji
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description A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a fever, nausea, diarrhea, and back pain. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was transferred to the intensive-care unit for mechanical circulatory support and antibiotics, but she died 40 hours after admission. Autopsy findings showed necrotic and suppurative myocardial changes due to group B Streptococcus (GBS). To date, only one case of bacterial myocarditis caused by GBS has been reported. We herein report a case of GBS myocarditis, the etiology of which is poorly understood due to the limited number of cases. Bacterial myocarditis should be considered in patients with sepsis and myocardial dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-89872622022-04-26 An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus Nakashima, Ryuta Kotoku, Munenori Gamachi, Ayako Inagaki, Nobuhiro Kasaoka, Shunji Intern Med Case Report A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a fever, nausea, diarrhea, and back pain. Her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was transferred to the intensive-care unit for mechanical circulatory support and antibiotics, but she died 40 hours after admission. Autopsy findings showed necrotic and suppurative myocardial changes due to group B Streptococcus (GBS). To date, only one case of bacterial myocarditis caused by GBS has been reported. We herein report a case of GBS myocarditis, the etiology of which is poorly understood due to the limited number of cases. Bacterial myocarditis should be considered in patients with sepsis and myocardial dysfunction. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021-09-18 2022-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8987262/ /pubmed/34544955 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5498-20 Text en Copyright © 2022 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nakashima, Ryuta
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Kasaoka, Shunji
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title An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus
title_full An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus
title_fullStr An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus
title_full_unstemmed An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus
title_short An Autopsy Case of Fulminant, Suppurative Bacterial Myocarditis Caused by Group B Streptococcus
title_sort autopsy case of fulminant, suppurative bacterial myocarditis caused by group b streptococcus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8987262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544955
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5498-20
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