Fulminant myocarditis in a COVID-19 positive patient treated with mechanical circulatory support - a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreading from Wuhan, Hubei province in China, is an expanding global pandemic with significant morbidity and mortality. Even though respiratory failure is the cardinal form of severe COVID-19, concomitant cardiac involvement is common. Myocarditis is a challenging diagnosis due to heterogeneity of clinical presentation, ranging from mild symptoms to fatal arrhythmia and cardiogenic shock (CS). The aetiology is often viral and endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is the gold standard for definite myocarditis. However, the diagnosis is often made on medical history, clinical presentation, magnetic resonance imaging, and blood tests.

Case summary

We present a 43-year-old man with mixed connective tissue disease treated with hydroxychloroqu

SUBMITTER: Papageorgiou JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7799209 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature