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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar;21(4):234-235.
doi: 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2019.48742.

Acute fulminant eosinophilic myocarditis due to Giardia lamblia infection presented with cardiogenic shock in a young patient

Sahin Avsar  1 , Ahmet Oz  2 , Tufan Çınar  2 , Altuğ Ösken  3 , Tolga Sinan Güvenç  3
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Case Reports

Acute fulminant eosinophilic myocarditis due to Giardia lamblia infection presented with cardiogenic shock in a young patient

Sahin Avsar et al. Anatol J Cardiol. 2019 Mar.
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Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Electrocardiography revealed an ST elevation in the DI and aVL leads along with reciprocal changes in the DII, DIII, and aVF leads
Figure 2
Figure 2
(a) There were signs of atrophy and nonspecific degenerative changes in the muscle fibers, interstitial inflammation, edema, and mild fibroplasia (H&E, x200). (b) Interstitial inflammation within the myocardium mainly comprised lymphocytes accompanied by eosinophilic leucocytes, as well as very few neutrophilic leukocytes (H&E, x400)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Completely normal electrocardiograph of the patient after treatments with metronidazole and high-dose corticosteroid
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