Acute myocarditis disclosing leptospirosis
Artigou, J.Y.; Chauvet, J.P.; Clergue, F.; Drobinski, G.; Grosgogeat, Y.
Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie 35(7): 387-389
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3928 PMID: 3800282 Document Number: 280766
A 44 year old patient presents with acute myocarditis and cardiogenic shock. The evolution is progressively favorable at the price of a residual involvement of the left ventricular function, evolving to a dilated cardiopathy, within three years. The responsibility of an advanced ictero-hemorrhagic leptospirosis is established. The severity of this myocarditis and the revealing characteristics of the leptospirosis are peculiar to this observation which is discussed in terms of data from the literature.