“…Although cardiac involvement in varicella has been described at post-mortem in those dying from unrecognized myocarditis or from other varicella complications (Hackel, 1953;Tatter et al, 1964;Moore et al, 1969;Morales, Adelman and Fine, 1971), clinical evidence of heart involvement in this disease is extremely rare, and is usually only recognized when there are suggestive electrocardiographic changes or when cardiac failure supervenes (Vazifdar and Levine, 1952;de Medeiros Neto, de Almeida and Facchini, 1961). In patients who survive there are no reported long-term sequelae.…”