Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus

Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi in which humans are accidental hosts. It is a febrile illness which is confined to rural Asia and the Western Pacific islands. Severe complications are very rare. We report four cases of acute fulminant myocarditis in children with...

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Main Authors:	Sittiwangkul R., Pongprot Y., Silviliarat S., Oberdorfer P., Jittamala P., Sirisanthana V.
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spelling	th-cmuir.6653943832-24212014-08-30T02:00:50Z Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus Sittiwangkul R. Pongprot Y. Silviliarat S. Oberdorfer P. Jittamala P. Sirisanthana V. Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi in which humans are accidental hosts. It is a febrile illness which is confined to rural Asia and the Western Pacific islands. Severe complications are very rare. We report four cases of acute fulminant myocarditis in children with scrub typhus. This complication led to severe cardiogenic shock and death in two of them. We believe this is the first report of fulminant myocarditis complicating scrub typhus in children. © 2008 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 2014-08-30T02:00:50Z 2014-08-30T02:00:50Z 2008 Article 02724936 10.1179/146532808X302189 18510826 ATPAD http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-48749119573&partnerID=40&md5=07ec9b3857e1aeabbd1105f8184d859a http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18510826 http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/2421 English
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description	Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi in which humans are accidental hosts. It is a febrile illness which is confined to rural Asia and the Western Pacific islands. Severe complications are very rare. We report four cases of acute fulminant myocarditis in children with scrub typhus. This complication led to severe cardiogenic shock and death in two of them. We believe this is the first report of fulminant myocarditis complicating scrub typhus in children. © 2008 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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author	Sittiwangkul R. Pongprot Y. Silviliarat S. Oberdorfer P. Jittamala P. Sirisanthana V.
spellingShingle	Sittiwangkul R. Pongprot Y. Silviliarat S. Oberdorfer P. Jittamala P. Sirisanthana V. Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
author_facet	Sittiwangkul R. Pongprot Y. Silviliarat S. Oberdorfer P. Jittamala P. Sirisanthana V.
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title	Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
title_short	Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
title_full	Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
title_fullStr	Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
title_full_unstemmed	Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
title_sort	acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus
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Acute fulminant myocarditis in scrub typhus

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