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Case Reports
. 2010 Feb;65(1):97-9.
doi: 10.2143/AC.65.1.2045898.

Fulminant myocarditis with dramatic response to corticoids

Mickaël Moreels  1 , Marie-Luce Delforge, Marc Renard
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Fulminant myocarditis with dramatic response to corticoids

Mickaël Moreels et al. Acta Cardiol. 2010 Feb.

Abstract

A 47-year-old healthy man developed acute fulminant coxsackie BI myocarditis with cardiogenic shock and extreme elevation of NT-pro-BNP (82585 pg/ml). He had a dramatic and rapid improvement within the following days after administration of corticoids on top of dobutamine and classic treatment.

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