A new manifestation of thrombocytopenia: myocardial haemorrhage with symptomatic arrhythmia.
We describe a patient with thrombocytopenia who developed episodes of dyspnoea due to recurrent cardiac arrhythmia. Necropsy revealed that the apparent mechanism was extensive myocardial haemorrhage.
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology