title: An infant with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to enteroviral myocarditis surviving up to cardiac transplantation.
abstract: We report the case of a 13-day-old infant with enteroviral myocarditis surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. She underwent orthotopic cardiac transplantation three months later. A year after the transplantation, she is alive and well. Enteroviral infection is common in neonates with high mortality in cases of enteroviral myocarditis. Cardiac transplantation is a treatment option for infants who fail to recover and remain dependent on inotropic support. This is the first report of an infant with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to enteroviral myocarditis surviving up to cardiac transplantation.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Paediatric Cardiology,Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children,Crumlin,Dublin,Ireland.
authors.forename: Eimear
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McGovern
authors.affiliation: 2Department of Paediatrics,University Hospital Galway,Galway,Ireland.
authors.forename: Ethel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Paediatric Cardiology,Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children,Crumlin,Dublin,Ireland.
authors.forename: Colin J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: McMahon
mesh_terms: D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology*; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000601:surgery* / Q000821:virology*
keywords: Myocarditis; out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; transplantation