Abstract:Myocarditis is a rare complication of therapy with mesalazine, a drug traditionally used in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. We report a case of a 32-year-old man with a recent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, who presented to our hospital with chest pain and elevated troponin, 12 days following initiation of mesalazine. Diagnosis of myocarditis was confirmed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), which showed subepicardial gadolinium enhancement in the basal lateral/inferolateral segment o… Show more
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