Cardiac involvement during Legionnaires' disease has been rarely described; few cases of myocarditis, pericarditis and endocarditis were reported. We describe a case of myocarditis associated to pneumonia, with high antibody title suggesting a disease due to Legionella pneumophila. The patient had severe myocardial damage, with overt heart failure and important ECG and Doppler-echocardiographic abnormalities, without associated multiorgan involvement.
Miocardite in corso di legionellosi. Descrizione di un caso / E. Astorri, G. Manzetti, C. Emanuelli, C. Bianchi, A. Garini, P. Fiorina. - In: MINERVA CARDIOANGIOLOGICA. - ISSN 0026-4725. - 44:9(1996 Sep), pp. 429-431.
Miocardite in corso di legionellosi. Descrizione di un caso
P. Fiorina
1996
Abstract
Cardiac involvement during Legionnaires' disease has been rarely described; few cases of myocarditis, pericarditis and endocarditis were reported. We describe a case of myocarditis associated to pneumonia, with high antibody title suggesting a disease due to Legionella pneumophila. The patient had severe myocardial damage, with overt heart failure and important ECG and Doppler-echocardiographic abnormalities, without associated multiorgan involvement.
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