Sudden death in tuberculous myocarditis.
Tuberculous myocarditis is one of the rare causes of sudden death. We report a case of 65-year-old female who came with diabetic foot and died suddenly after 2 days of hospital stay. On autopsy, she was found to have tuberculous myocarditis with granulomatous inflammation only in the liver and without pulmonary or mediastinal lymph node involvement. These findings are very unusual in tuberculous myocarditis.
Amonkar
Gayathri
G
Department of Pathology, T N Medical College and B Y L Nair Ch Hospital, Mumbai Central, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Rupani
Asha
A
Shah
Vinaya
V
Parmar
Heena
H
D000368:Aged; D001344:Autopsy; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000150:complications; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D014381:Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D014386:Tuberculosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology