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J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Cardiac tamponade and heart failure due to myopericarditis as a presentation of infection with the pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus.
Puzelli S, Buonaguro FM, Facchini M, Palmieri A, Calzoletti L, De Marco MA, Arace P, de Campora E, Esposito C, Cassone A, Rezza G, Donatelli I; the Surveillance Group for Pandemic H1N1 2009 Influenza Virus in Italy; the Campania H1N1 Task Force.
Istituto Superiore di Sanit? (ISS - National Institute of Health), Rome, Italy; "Fondazione Pascale" Institute, Neaples, Italy; "Santobono - Pausilipon" Hospital, Neaples, Italy; "Cotugno" Hospital, Neaples, Italy.
Abstract
We describe a fatal case of myopericarditis presenting with cardiac tamponade in a previously healthy 11 years old child. Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus sequences were identified in throat, myocardial tissues and pericardial fluid, suggesting a damage of myocardial cells directly caused by the virus.
PMID: 20392922 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20392922
Cardiac tamponade and heart failure due to myopericarditis as a presentation of infection with the pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus.
Puzelli S, Buonaguro FM, Facchini M, Palmieri A, Calzoletti L, De Marco MA, Arace P, de Campora E, Esposito C, Cassone A, Rezza G, Donatelli I; the Surveillance Group for Pandemic H1N1 2009 Influenza Virus in Italy; the Campania H1N1 Task Force.
Istituto Superiore di Sanit? (ISS - National Institute of Health), Rome, Italy; "Fondazione Pascale" Institute, Neaples, Italy; "Santobono - Pausilipon" Hospital, Neaples, Italy; "Cotugno" Hospital, Neaples, Italy.
Abstract
We describe a fatal case of myopericarditis presenting with cardiac tamponade in a previously healthy 11 years old child. Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus sequences were identified in throat, myocardial tissues and pericardial fluid, suggesting a damage of myocardial cells directly caused by the virus.
PMID: 20392922 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20392922