COVID-19-Related Myocarditis: Are We There Yet? A Case Report of COVID-19-Related Fulminant Myocarditis.

COVID-19 myocarditis post-mortem examination sudden death

Journal

Biomedicines
ISSN: 2227-9059
Titre abrégé: Biomedicines
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101691304

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Jul 2023
Historique:
received: 14 06 2023
revised: 14 07 2023
accepted: 20 07 2023
medline: 26 8 2023
pubmed: 26 8 2023
entrez: 26 8 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

There is increasing evidence of cardiac involvement in COVID-19 cases, with a broad range of clinical manifestations spanning from acute life-threatening conditions such as ventricular dysrhythmias, myocarditis, acute myocardial ischemia and pulmonary thromboembolism to long-term cardiovascular sequelae. In particular, acute myocarditis represents an uncommon but frightening complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even if many reports of SARS CoV-2 myocarditis are present in the literature, the majority of them lacks histological confirmation of cardiac injury. Here, we report a case of a young lady, who died suddenly a few days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, whose microscopic and genetics features suggested a direct cardiac involvement compatible with fulminant myocarditis.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37626600
pii: biomedicines11082101
doi: 10.3390/biomedicines11082101
pmc: PMC10452198
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

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Auteurs

Alessandro Pierri (A)

Cardiothoracovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, 34139 Trieste, Italy.
Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

Giulia Gagno (G)

Cardiothoracovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, 34139 Trieste, Italy.
Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

Alessandra Fluca (A)

Cardiothoracovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, 34139 Trieste, Italy.
Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

Davide Radaelli (D)

Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

Diana Bonuccelli (D)

Department of Legal Medicine, Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest, 55100 Lucca, Italy.

Laura Giusti (L)

Department of Human Pathology, San Luca Hospital, Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest, 55100 Lucca, Italy.

Michela Bulfoni (M)

Institute of Clinical Pathology, Academic Hospital "Santa Maria della Misericordia", ASUFC, Department of Medicine (DAME), University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.

Antonio P Beltrami (AP)

Institute of Clinical Pathology, Academic Hospital "Santa Maria della Misericordia", ASUFC, Department of Medicine (DAME), University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.

Aneta Aleksova (A)

Cardiothoracovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, 34139 Trieste, Italy.
Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

Stefano D'Errico (S)

Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34139 Trieste, Italy.

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