A case report of cardiac cysticercosis in a returning traveller: a rare cause of myocarditis

BACKGROUND: A 38-year-old male of Indian origin presented via ambulance directly to the cardiac catheter lab with chest pain and electrocardiogram changes suggestive of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Serum troponin was recorded at >10 000 ng/L. CASE SUMMARY: Angiogram revealed normal coro...

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Autor principal: Littlewood, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9155622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35664898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytac208
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description BACKGROUND: A 38-year-old male of Indian origin presented via ambulance directly to the cardiac catheter lab with chest pain and electrocardiogram changes suggestive of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Serum troponin was recorded at >10 000 ng/L. CASE SUMMARY: Angiogram revealed normal coronary arteries. Echocardiography showed myocardial lesions and a subsequent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed myocardial cysticercosis. DISCUSSION: This is a case of myocardial cysticercosis causing myocarditis. He was treated successfully with albendazole for Taenia solium infection and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and colchicine for myocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-91556222022-06-04 A case report of cardiac cysticercosis in a returning traveller: a rare cause of myocarditis Littlewood, Simon Eur Heart J Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: A 38-year-old male of Indian origin presented via ambulance directly to the cardiac catheter lab with chest pain and electrocardiogram changes suggestive of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Serum troponin was recorded at >10 000 ng/L. CASE SUMMARY: Angiogram revealed normal coronary arteries. Echocardiography showed myocardial lesions and a subsequent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed myocardial cysticercosis. DISCUSSION: This is a case of myocardial cysticercosis causing myocarditis. He was treated successfully with albendazole for Taenia solium infection and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and colchicine for myocarditis. Oxford University Press 2022-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9155622/ /pubmed/35664898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytac208 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9155622/
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