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Cardiol Young. 2014 Jan 30:1-4. [Epub ahead of print]
Transient left ventricular wall thickening in a 14-year-old girl with influenza A myocarditis.
Wittlieb-Weber CA, Harris MA, Rossano JW.
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Abstract
We describe a case of influenza A myocarditis and transient left ventricular wall thickening in a 14-year-old girl presenting with acute heart failure. Admission echocardiogram revealed significant left ventricular hypertrophy with depressed left ventricular systolic function. The aetiology of the ventricular thickening was demonstrated to be myocardial oedema using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. The natural course of this unusual clinical presentation of acute myocarditis and the importance of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in this challenging clinical setting are discussed.
PMID:
24480544
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24480544
Transient left ventricular wall thickening in a 14-year-old girl with influenza A myocarditis.
Wittlieb-Weber CA, Harris MA, Rossano JW.
Author information
Abstract
We describe a case of influenza A myocarditis and transient left ventricular wall thickening in a 14-year-old girl presenting with acute heart failure. Admission echocardiogram revealed significant left ventricular hypertrophy with depressed left ventricular systolic function. The aetiology of the ventricular thickening was demonstrated to be myocardial oedema using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. The natural course of this unusual clinical presentation of acute myocarditis and the importance of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in this challenging clinical setting are discussed.
PMID:
24480544
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24480544