Campylobacter jejuni-Related Myocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Virginia Zouganeli, Christos Kourek, Vasiliki Bistola, Maria Mademli, Ioannis Grigoropoulos, Konstantinos Thomas, Sotirios Tsiodras, Gerasimos Filippatos, Dimitrios Farmakis · 2024
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Description
Virginia Zouganeli and co-authors report in 2024 a rare case where a common food-poisoning germ inflamed a young man's heart. The germ usually stops at the gut. Their patient, aged twenty-four, arrived with fever, diarrhea, and sharp chest pain.
Blood tests showed a heart injury marker up, while the heart tracing stayed normal. A heart scan confirmed inflammation of the heart muscle. Stool tests named the germ, they report. Care was support, fluids and salts, plus three days of an antibiotic. He went home after eight days fully recovered, and later checks showed the heart back to normal. Chest pain with diarrhea in the young deserves a heart check, the case argues, not just a stomach one.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Virginia Zouganeli, Christos Kourek, Vasiliki Bistola, Maria Mademli, Ioannis Grigoropoulos, Konstantinos Thomas, Sotirios Tsiodras, Gerasimos Filippatos, Dimitrios Farmakis |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |