Clinical features of acute coxsackie B viral myocarditis.
Clinical features of 11 patients of acute Coxsackie B viral myocarditis diagnosed by neutralizing antibody titers were reported. All patients had a flu-like symptom and 8 patients had fever. Initial cardiac manifestations were congestive heart failure in 9 patients, and syncopal attack in 4 patients. Electrocardiographic abnormalities frequently observed were non-specific ST-T changes, low voltage, and intraventricular conduction, disturbances including 4 patients of complete A-V block due to trifascicular block. Ten patients had a rise of serum enzymes. It seemed that in severe patients the serum enzymes rose markedly. From the analysis of laboratory and histological findings. Coxsackie B viral myocarditis were often complicated by hepatitis.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000097:blood; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000097:blood; D002648:Child; D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase