Acute myocarditis. A follow-up study.

Gerzén, Per; Granath, A; Holmgren, Bengt S.; Zetterquist, S

doi:10.1136/hrt.34.6.575

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“…One of them (Case 13) had sinus tachycardia at rest and sympatheticotonic ECG changes appeared during standing, indicating neurocirculatory asthenia. The mean pulse increase in the orthostatic test was 15 beats/min, which tallies with Bergstrom et al (2) and GerzCn et al (6).…”

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Acute Myopericarditis

Sanner¹,

Sigurðsson²,

Gislasson³

et al. 1976

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

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A follow-up study was made of 29 patients aged 21 to 45 years, some 15-158 months after acute myopericarditis. The mean follow-up period was 72.9 months. The follow-up investigation included recording of history, physical examination, laboratory tests, radiologic examination of the heart and lungs and electrocardiography. All hut one of the patients were fit for fulltime work. Nine had residual cardiac symptoms, but the physical examination was negative in all but 2 of them. One patient had chronic cardiac insufficiency and hepatic enlargement. Another had sinus tachycardia and cardiac enlargement of moderate degree and impaired working capacity in relation to heart size. Cardiac murmurs without clinical significance were audible in three cases. The resting ECG was pathologic in only 6 cases. Orthostatic ECG evoked ECG abnormalities in 6 more cases. Exercise tolerance tests showed reduced working capacity in relation to heart volume in 5 of the 29 cases (17%). Four of these 5 patients had cardiac enlargement. There was thus good correlation between increase in heart volume and reduction of physical capacity. The prognosis in regard to cardiac function was good, as was also found in other comparable series in which the observation time was somewhat shorter.

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“…Some reports have recently been published on the incidence and course of acute myopericarditis (11,3,7,2,6). The prognosis of acute myopericarditis in regard to cardiac function is considered to be good, however, a few deaths and occasional cases of chronic cardiac insufficiency have been reported (11,16,13).…”

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Acute Myopericarditis

Sanner¹,

Sigurðsson²,

Gislasson³

et al. 1976

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

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“…This low percentage of enteroviral myocarditis is one of the most conspicuous features of the present study since in most myocarditis studies the enteroviruses are the predominant aetiologies (except for studies during epidemics of other infectious diseases) [6,7,[16][17][18][19][20] . The primary focus of this study was not on microbial diagnostics, and so several routine diagnostic methods were employed during the course of the study.…”

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The incidence and epidemiology of myocarditis

Friman

1999

European Heart Journal

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“…However, the Myocarditis Treatment Trial in which endomyocardial biopsy was performed in over 2,200 patients with unexplained heart failure of less than two years duration indicated a prevalence of 10%, implicating myocarditis as a potential cause of heart failure in hundreds of thousands of patients . Since only around 5% of patients systemically infected with a cardiotropic virus (Coxsakie ) may develop cardiac involvement, it is important to determine what factors may increase the risk of cardiac involvement (Grist & Bell, 1969;Gerzen et al, 1972;Rodeheffer & Gersh, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%