Fulminant myocarditis: COVID or not COVID? Reinfection or co-infection?
SARS-CoV-2
VA ECMO
cardiogenic shock
coronavirus disease-19
fulminant myocarditis
Journal
Future cardiology
ISSN: 1744-8298
Titre abrégé: Future Cardiol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101239345
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2021
11 2021
Historique:
pubmed:
23
2
2021
medline:
1
12
2021
entrez:
22
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We describe a unique case of fulminant myocarditis in a patient with presumed SARS-CoV-2 reinfection. Patient had initial infection 4 months backand had COVID-19 antibody at the time of presentation. Endomyocardial biopsy showed lymphocytic myocarditis, that is usually seen in viral myocarditis. The molecular diagnostic testing of the endomyocardial biopsy for cardiotropic viruses was positive for Parvovirus and negative for SARS-CoV-2. Authors highly suspect co-infection of SARS-CoV-2 and Parvovirus, that possibly triggered the immune cascade resulting in fulminant myocarditis. Patient was hemodynamically unstable with ventricular tachycardia and was supported on VA ECMO and Impella CP. There was impressive recovery of left ventricular function within 48 h, leading to decannulation of VA ECMO in 72 h. This unique case was written by the survivor herself.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33615872
doi: 10.2217/fca-2020-0237
pmc: PMC7919708
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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