Predictors of acute myocarditis in complicated scrub typhus: an endemic province in the Republic of Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Scrub typhus is known as a self-limited infectious disease. Cardiac complication is uncommon and usually not life-threatening. Until now, few cases of fulminant myocarditis by scrub typhus have been reported. So, we investigated incidence and predictors of acute myocarditis in severe scrub typhus.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed 89 patients among 91 scrub typhus confirmed patients who examined an echocardiogram and cardiac biomarkers from 2005 to 2015 in the intensive care unit at our hospital. We excluded two patients who didn't have electrocardiography. Patients were divided into two groups and compared between scrub typhus with (n = 13) and without (n = 76) acute myocarditis.

Results

Age, sex, and underlying diseases were similar between the gro

SUBMITTER: Chin JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5840598 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature