Q fever presenting as myocarditis

Dengue presenting as viral myocarditis

E-mail: [email protected]; Tel.: 91-22-23693509 Dengue fever (DF) is endemic in India and causes dengue fever, its severe form dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Hypotension due to intravascular depletion due to capillary leak is common in DHF and DSS. However, myocardial dysfunction is also seen with DHF/ DSS and could be responsible for hypotension and ...

Q fever presenting with paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia.

[Acute myocardial failure in a young man: Q-fever myocarditis].

Coxiella burnetii myocarditis is a rare but severe clinical form of acute Q fever. We report the case of a 40-year-old man hospitalized for acute febrile syndrome. Forty-eight hours later, he presented dyspnea, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea; cardiac auscultation revealed a third sound and echocardiography showed a diffusely hypokinetic and dilated left ventricle (30% ejection frac...

Toxoplasma myocarditis presenting as myocardial infarction.

Eosinophilic myocarditis presenting as acute coronary syndrome.

Eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) is a rare condition that may result from several heterogeneous eosinophilic diseases, including parasite infection, hypersensitivity reaction, vasculitis, and hypereosinophilic syndrome. Regardless of etiology, the disease may present with various cardiac conditions, such as acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, or arrhythmia. Irreversible endomyocardial fibrosis...