Giant cell myocarditis symptoms

    • Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcome of Giant-Cell ...

      Apr 08, 2012 · Kandolin et al Giant-Cell Myocarditis Circulation Heart FailureMonth 2012 Background—Giant-cell myocarditis often escapes diagnosis until autopsy or transplantation and has defied proper treatment trials for its rarity and deadly behavior. Current therapy rests on multiple-drug immunosuppression but its prognostic influence remains poorly known.


    • Giant Cell Myocarditis. A Case Report

      Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare and serious illness, probably of autoimmune origin, histologically characterized by the presence of giant multinucleated cells along with extensive inflammatory infiltrates with large areas of necrosis.1Until 1997, barely 80 isolated cases had been published and 2 limited


    • [PDF File]Important medical event terms list (MedDRA version 23.0 ...

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      10083635 Giant cell myocarditis Cardiac disorders New PT in v23.0. Inflammatory conditions of the myocardium meet the criteria for inclusion. X 10083709 Holiday heart syndrome Cardiac disorders New PT in v23.0. This term fits the inclusion criteria as a relevant term for cardiac arrhythmias. Holiday heart syndrome is an acute


    • [PDF File]Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C ...

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      Incomplete Kawasaki symptoms (i.e., at least 3/6 of anemia, WBC > 15,000, Platelets > 450 or 10 WBC/hpf OR + echo (↓LVEF, CA dilation, valvitis) O R Classical Kawasaki symptoms Any of Inflammation o CRP o Ferritin o Troponin o Pro-BNP Fever (↑38.0) ≥ 4 days+ ANY of o GI symptoms o ...


    • [PDF File]Giant Cell Myocarditis Depicted by Cardiac Magnetic ...

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      Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis— natural history and outcome. N Engl J Med. 1997;336:1860–1866. 3. Okura Y, Dec GW, Hare JM, et al. A clinical and histopathologic comparison of cardiac sarcoidosis and idiopathic giant cell myocarditis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003;41:322–329. 4. Davies RA, Veinot JP, Smith S, et al. Giant cell myocarditis ...


    • A Case Report of Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis

      A Case Report of Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis Bao Bui, MD, Sumeet Chhabra, MD, Siva K. Kumar, MD Case Report A year old African American male was admitted to an outside hospital in July 007 with symptoms of severe heart failure that required implantation of a short-term left ventricular assist device (LVAD). He was subsequently transferred ...


    • [PDF File]Giant-Cell Myocarditis With Multiple Organ Involvement

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      Cases of giant-cell myocarditis reported in the English literature through 1963 are briefly summarizedin the Table. Giant-cell myocarditis can onlybe suspectedfrom the clinical findings. As seen in the Table, the outstanding clinical finding is a rapidly progressive heart failure associated with a cardiac arrhythmia. It is of special interest ...


    • [PDF File]Giant cell myocarditis presenting with acute heart failure

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      Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare and rapidly progressing form of myocarditis predominantly affecting younger people. We report a case of a 23-year-old athletic patient who presented with features of acute heart failure due to GCM and discuss his management that included a left ventricular assist device as a bridge to transplant.


    • Atrial Giant Cell Myocarditis

      diopathic giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is a rare cardiac inflammatory disorder that is characterized by diffuse infil-tration of the ventricular myocardium by lymphocytes and abundant multinucleated giant cells, frequent eosinophils, cardiomyocyte necrosis, and, eventually, fibrosis. Functional


    • 062697 Idiopathic Giant-Cell Myocarditis -- Natural

      Giant-cell myocarditis was diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy in 33 cases (52 percent), by examination of the explanted heart in 14 (22 percent), at autopsy in 11 (17 percent), and by examination


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