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Ventricular Tachycardia in Cardiac Sarcoidosis: To Immunosuppress or Not?
Anno:
2025
Background: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, commonly affecting the lungs, and lymphatic system. Clinically evident cardiac involvement occurs in about 5% of cases, presenting as bradyarrhythmias, VT, and heart failure. However, many patients have subclinical disease and autopsies show cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) in 20–29% of systemic…
KAWASAKI DISEASE AND OVERLAP WITH MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME PRESENTING AS MYOCARDITIS IN A TEENAGER
Anno:
2025
This report presents a case of a teenager with Kawasaki disease (KD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), an overlap condition presenting initially as myocarditis. The patient arrived with persistent fever, rash, and conjunctivitis, along with cardiac dysfunction marked by reduced ejection fraction on echocardiography and elevated cardiac laboratory markers…
A rare case of cardioembolic stroke – left atrial sarcoma
Anno:
2025
CLINICAL CASE: A 73-year-old man, a former smoker, came to the emergency department for speech disturbance and deviation of the oral rhyme compatible with ischaemic cerebral stroke (brain CT scan excluded haemorrhagic phenomena). The ECG showed new atrial fibrillation while the transthoracic echocardiography showed a voluminous inhomogeneous ovoid mass…
WHEN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND TIMELY APPROACH CAN BE FUNDAMENTAL: A CASE OF FULMINANT MYOCARDITIS WITH AN ARRHYTHMIC STORM AND ACUTE LIVER FAILURE
Anno:
2025
A 49-year-old male presented to our attention with epigastric pain and episodes of vomiting, accompanied by cold sweats and dyspnea that had started a few hours earlier. Upon arrival, the patient was hemodynamically unstable (systolic blood pressure was 80 mmHg) and the ECG showed a wide-complex tachycardia at rate…
Overlapping of light chains amyloidosis and myocarditis in systemic sclerosis: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
Anno:
2025
Case report: A 56-year-old woman with history of hypertension and MGUS (IGM kappa) presented with syncopal episodes, hypotension, exertional dyspnea and asthenia. The patient was admitted to our Cardiology ward due to elevated NTProBNP and hs troponin (1500 ng/l, vn <14); the coronary angiography showed normal coronary arteries. Transthoracic…
A rare and venomous myocarditis
Anno:
2025
Venomous bites are medical emergencies that may result in life-threatening clinical effects. Cardiovascular complications are uncommon but they can be dangerous if not early detected and treated. Cerebral and myocardial infarction are described; myocarditis as consequence of viper envenomation in humans are very rare, almost anedoctal. We present the…
A myocarditis on honeymoon
Anno:
2025
Female, 31 years old, in May 2024, while on her honeymoon in Santo Domingo, was stung by an unspecified insect. Upon her return, after about a week, she develops fever unresponsive to home therapy therefore she accesses the infectious emergency room of our AORN, where she is found to…
MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY, HEALTH STATUS, AND QUALITY OF LIFE WITH VUTRISIRAN IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS WITH CARDIOMYOPATHY: DATA FROM THE HELIOS-B STUDY
Anno:
2025
Background: Transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) progressively impairs patients’ functional capacity, health status, and quality of life (QOL). In HELIOS-B, vutrisiran reduced all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events compared with placebo in patients with ATTR-CM and demonstrated significant benefit on multiple clinical measures of disease progression. Methods: In HELIOS-B, 6-minute…
Pancreatitis-associated myocarditis: systematic review and meta-analysis of a deadly duo
Anno:
2025
BACKGROUND Myocardial injury is a recognized complication of acute pancreatitis, whereas myocarditis has only been occasionally reported and has not been systematically evaluated.   METHODS We systematically reviewed PubMed literature published up to January 2024 for studies including both "myocarditis" and "pancreatitis" as keywords. Relevant data regarding patient characteristics…
The Great Mimicker Unmasked: A Case Report of Cardiac Sarcoidosis Hidden by Myocardial Infarction and Colon Cancer
Anno:
2025
Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease in which a dysregulated immunologic response in genetically predisposed individuals leads to the formation of non-necrotizing inflammatory granulomas Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis is usually associated with extracardiac sarcoidosis and can present as silent, minimally symptomatic, or clinically manifest.  A 44-year-old Caucasian male with an active lifestyle and…