serval:BIB_3E1F05E36E07
First Documentation of Persistent SARS-Cov-2 Infection Presenting With Late Acute Severe Myocarditis.
10.1016/j.cjca.2020.06.005
000558586200030
32522523
Pavon
A.G.
author
Meier
D.
author
Samim
D.
author
Rotzinger
D.C.
author
Fournier
S.
author
Marquis
P.
author
Monney
P.
author
Muller
O.
author
Schwitter
J.
author
article
casereport
2020-08
The Canadian journal of cardiology
1916-7075
0828-282X
journal
36
8
1326.e5-1326.e7
A 64-year-old man presented with severe myocarditis 6 weeks after an initial almost asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) infection. He was found to have a persistent positive swab. Mechanisms explaining myocardial injury in patients with COVID-19 remains unclear, but this case suggests that severe acute myocarditis can develop in the late phase of COVID-19 infection, even after a symptom-free interval.
Asymptomatic Diseases
Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification
Biomarkers/blood
Clinical Laboratory Techniques/methods
Coronavirus Infections/complications
Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections/physiopathology
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine/methods
Male
Middle Aged
Myocarditis/blood
Myocarditis/diagnosis
Myocarditis/therapy
Myocarditis/virology
Pandemics
Patient Care Management/methods
Pneumonia, Viral/complications
Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral/physiopathology
Radiography, Thoracic
Stroke Volume
Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/etiology
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
Publication types: Case Reports
Publication Status: ppublish
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