Unusual Presentation of Listerial Myocarditis and the Diagnostic Value of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

Listeria monocytogenes is an infrequent cause of bacterial myocarditis. Myocarditis without evidence of endocarditis is even rarer. Management in such cases involves early diagnosis, antibiotic therapy, and emergency treatment of arrhythmias. We report the case of a 47-year-old man who presented wit...

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Published in:Tex Heart Inst J
Main Authors: Ladani, Amit P., Biswas, Abhishek, Vaghasia, Nishit, Generalovich, Thomas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Texas Heart® Institute, Houston 2015
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4473623/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26175642
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.14503/THIJ-14-4204
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