Case Of Acute Myocarditis Research Articles

A case of acute myocarditis with chronic automatic atrial tachycardia

A case of acute myocarditis with chronic automatic atrial tachycardia

Two Serious Cases of Acute Myocarditis in Children

Two Serious Cases of Acute Myocarditis in Children

Myocarditis and cardiomyopathy

With more widespread application of EMB techniques, a significant percentage of ICCM patients have been found to have lymphocytic myocarditis on biopsy. It is now appreciated that patients with myocarditis may also present with isolated abnormalities of left ventricular diastolic function, dysrhythmias, and/or complaints of chest discomfort with normal coronary angiograms. Epidemiologic and serologic data incriminate a viral etiology underlying many cases of acute myocarditis and ICCM. Although most cases of viral myocarditis appear to resolve without residual left ventricular dysfunction, a small but significant percentage of these patients progress to chronic congestive cardiomyopathy. In the absence of persistent active viral infection in these patients, myocardial damage may be mediated by both cellular and humoral immune mechanisms. The concept of virus-induced immune mediated myocardial damage forms the basis for attempts at immunosuppressive therapy. Whether immunosuppressive therapy alters the natural history of myocarditis is at present unknown and awaits demonstration by a controlled clinical trial.

A case of acute myocarditis caused by Thycoplasma pneumoniae

A case of acute myocarditis caused by Thycoplasma pneumoniae

A case of acute myocarditis caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae

A case of acute myocarditis caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae

On the potentiality of myocardial cell regeneration. Ultrastructural observation employing serial endomyocardial biopsy in 9 cases of acute myocarditis : M. Sekiguchi, M. Hiroe and M. Take. Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan

On the potentiality of myocardial cell regeneration. Ultrastructural observation employing serial endomyocardial biopsy in 9 cases of acute myocarditis : M. Sekiguchi, M. Hiroe and M. Take. Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan

Fatal myocarditis following smallpox vaccination

T HE occurrence of encephalitis as a complication to smallpox vaccination is well known and has been discussed repeatedly elsewhere, but up to 1955, no case of acute myocarditis in association with smallpox vaccination had been published. Dolgopol, Greenberg, and Aronoff ,I in 1955, analyzed 49 alleged cases of encephalitis following smallpox vaccination of 5,000,OOO persons in New York City in 1947. Forty-three cases with 2 deaths were accepted as postvaccination encephalitis. Another case was that of a man, aged 34 years, who 9 days after the vaccination suddenly developed severe headache followed by convulsions and death within an hour after admission to hospital. At necropsy the brain and all other organs showed marked congestion. Microscopic examination revealed a severe actue focal myocarditis with mononuclear inflammatory foci. The brain showed congestion and occasional small petechial hemorrhages. The diagnosis was acute focal myocarditis; congestive encephalopathy.

ACUTE ISOLATED MYOCARDITIS

Recently, Scott and Saphir 1 reported two cases of acute isolated myocarditis, which were the first to be recorded in the American literature. They mentioned the reports of thirty-six other cases with postmortem observations recorded in the Continental literature since 1888, when Steffen 2 described two cases of acute myocarditis which probably fall into this classification. Fiedler, 3 however, in 1890 was the first to give a clear description of the disease, and it is his name that has served as an eponym since. There are many synonyms in use in labeling this type of lesion. A few of the terms used by previous authors are interstitial, circumscribed, diffuse, isolated, idiopathic and primary, singly or in combination. The terms refer to an inflammatory lesion of the myocardium alone, which is associated with a distinctive clinical and pathologic picture. Sellentin 4 was the first to name the disease isolated myocarditis because, as a rule, changes