ABSTRACT
We describe a case of acute myocarditis subsequent to varicella virus infection. We comment on the rarity of the clinical entity together with the nonspecificity of the routine diagnostic technique (EKG, X-ray, echocardiography study, routine laboratory, etc.) linked with the excellent gain of antibodies cardiac gammagraphy joined with viral serology, after the primary suspicion factor prior to the presence of skin lesions, fever and thoracic pain.
Subject(s)
Chickenpox/complications , Herpesvirus 3, Human , Myocarditis/etiology , Acute Disease , Adult , Chickenpox/diagnosis , Echocardiography , Electrocardiography , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Myocarditis/diagnosis , Myocarditis/diagnostic imaging , Radionuclide Imaging , Time FactorsABSTRACT
We present a case of polymyalgia-like syndrome in a 62-years-old woman with four month history of severe headache, muscular claudication, asthenia, normochromic, normocytic anaemia and elevation of erytrocyte sedimentation rate. A diagnosis of giant left atrial myxoma was made brought about by thoracoabdominal magnetic resonance. Their surgical exeresis was followed by gradual disappearance of symptoms and normalization of laboratory parameters.
