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Biventricular Intravascular Microaxial Blood Pumps and Immunosuppression as a Bridge to Recovery in Giant Cell Myocarditis

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
We report a case of giant cell myocarditis in a 76-year-old patient managed with combined immunosuppression and biventricular intravascular microaxial blood pumps. This case highlights a feasible approach for managing such patients who are not candidates
Janet I. Ma, MD, Enrico Ammirati, MD, PhD, Michela Brambatti, MD, MS, Eric Adler, MD   +3 more
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Idiopathic systemic granulomatous pathology causing sudden death due to myocarditis: A rare case report

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2015
Idiopathic granulomatous myocarditis is extremely rare, particularly since the introduction of drugs effective against tuberculosis (TB), viruses, fungi and the effective treatment of sarcoidosis.
Harpal Singh, Ramesh Kundal
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Left Atrial Giant Cell Myocarditis Presenting as a Tumor: First-in-Man Case Report

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Giant cell myocarditis is a rare and highly lethal disorder with resultant cardiac insufficiency. It necessitates aggressive immune suppression therapy, although the results are often fatal.
Omer Tanyeli, Yuksel Dereli, Niyazi Gormus, Mustafa Cihat Avunduk   +3 more
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Clinical case of the treatment of acute heart failure with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with acute idiopathic giant cell myocarditis [PDF]

Кардіохірургія та інтервенційна кардіологія, 2016
The article describes clinical case demonstrating the feasibility of using extracorporeal circulatory support in patients with severe heart failure caused by idiopathic giant cell myocarditis.
B.M. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, A.N. Postupalsky, A.N. Druzhyna, O.A. Loskutov, I.N. Kuzmich, А.О. Shpachuk   +6 more
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Progressive Thinning of the Basal Interventricular Septum by Giant Cell Myocarditis

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
We describe a patient with ventricular tachycardia and complete atrioventricular block. Remarkable thinning of the basal interventricular septum preceded left ventricular dysfunction. Endomyocardial biopsy demonstrated giant cell myocarditis. The patient
Arthur Iturriagagoitia, MD, Vanessa Meert, MD, Jeroen De Cocker, MD, Martin Penicka, MD, PhD, Ward Heggermont, MD, PhD, Marc Vanderheyden, MD   +5 more
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Cardiovascular involvement in Kawaski Disease [PDF]

, 2005
This article contains a case report of a 19 month old child with Kawasaki Disease who developed bilateral giant coronary artery aneurysms.peer ...
Chintala, Kavitha, Forbes, T.J., Reddy, S.V.   +2 more
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Fulminantne müokardiit. Haigusjuht ja kirjanduse ülevaade [PDF]

, 2018
Müokardiit on heterogeenne haigus nii etioloogia kui ka kliinilise kulu poolest. Haiguse aluseks on põletikuline südamelihase kahjustus, mis kulgeb ägeda, enamasti taaspöörduva sündroomina.
Altmets, Mait, Kütt, Marge, Leismann, Tiina, Lotman, Eno-Martin, Reinmets, Julia, Rätsep, Indrek   +5 more
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Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis in a newborn: case report

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2016
Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (IGCM) is a rare cause of arrhythmia, heart failure and death in children. The etiology of IGCM is unknown. Endomyocardial biopsy and histological examination are essential for diagnosis.
Doğuş Özdemir-Kara, Sultan Pehlivan, Dilhan Türkkan, Hanife Alkan-Alkurt, Barış Akduman, Mustafa Karapirli   +5 more
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Regulatory lymphoid and myeloid cells determine the cardiac immunopathogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection [PDF]

, 2018
Chagas disease is a multisystemic disorder caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which affects ~8 million people in Latin America, killing 7,000 people annually.
Abrahamsohn, Aliberti, Aliberti, Anderssohn, Antúnez, Antúnez, Araujo, Argüello, Arocena, Bergeron, Bettelli, Blackwell, Bonney, Bronte, Bronte, Bronte, Brys, Böhme, Cabalén, Cabral-Piccin, Cai, Calderón, Carbajosa, Cardillo, Chen, Choi, Collison, Cuervo, Cuervo, da Costa, da Matta Guedes, de Araújo, Esper, Flores-García, Gabrilovich, Gallina, Gao, Gazzinelli, Geissmann, Ghassabeh, Gironès, Golden, Gomes, González, González, González, Goñi, Guedes, Guerrero, Guilliams, Hall, Holscher, Jäger, Kitada, Konig, Kotner, Kralova, Kumar, Lewis, Luna-Gomes, Mariano, Martin, Matos, Medina, Mengel, Ming, Miyazaki, Munder, Muñoz-Fernández, Müller, Nihei, Perez-Molina, Ponce, Poncini, Rassi, Rodriguez, Roffê, Sakaguchi, Sales, Sanmarco, Sanoja, Santamaría, Silva, Silva, Silverio, Stempin, Teerlink, Telleria, Tosello Boari, Vasconcelos, Vincendeau, Wirth, Wynn, Zingales, Zingales   +94 more
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Histopathological Evaluation of Somatostatin Receptor 2 Expression in Myocarditis—Rationale for the Diagnostic Use of Somatostatin Receptor Imaging

Diagnostics
Background/Objectives: Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium and remains to this day a challenging diagnosis. A promising novel imaging method uses the expression of somatostatin receptors (SSTRs) on inflammatory cells to visualize ...
Christian L. Polte, Kittichate Visuttijai, Kristina Vukusic, Joakim Sandstedt, Mikael Sandstedt, Emanuele Bobbio, Marie Björkenstam, Kristjan Karason, Niklas Bergh, Entela Bollano, Anders Oldfors   +10 more
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