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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…