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Category: Volume 06 Issue 02 February 2018
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Title: Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis: A Case Report

Authors: Ravneet Badhan, Ashima Jain, Puneet Garg, Ramesh Kumar Kundal, Ankur Jain

 DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i2.187

Abstract

Giant-cell myocarditis is an extremely rare disease of relatively young, predominantly healthy adults. The patients usually die of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmia unless a cardiac transplantation is performed. We present a case of sudden death in a healthy 45 years old male due to giant cell myocarditis having history of sudden collapse and ultimately death. Histopathology findings of the heart showed non-caseating granulomas with numerous giant cells. Ziehl-Neelsen staining of the sections for acid fast bacilli was negative; stains for fungi were also negative. So, this case is strongly considered to be a case of sudden death due to myocarditis as a result of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis, a rare case in literature.

Keywords: Giant-cell myocarditis, non-caseating granulomas, asteroid body and Schumann body.

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Corresponding Author

Dr Ashima Jain

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