Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis:
A Case Report
Published: October 1, 2012 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2012/.2377
Kalpana Kumari M.K., Vijaya V. Mysorekar, Praveen S.
1. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology,
MS Ramaiah Medical College, Karnataka, India.
2. Senior Professor, Department of Pathology,
MS Ramaiah Medical College, Karnataka, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine,
MS Ramaiah Medical College, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Kalpana Kumari M.K.
Flat No. 710, C-Block, Sterling Residency, Dollors Colony,
RMV IInd stage, Bangalore-560094, Karnataka (India).
Phone: 9886392301
E-mail: kalpank@gmail.com
Giant-cell myocarditis is a disease of relatively young, predominantly healthy adults. The patients usually die of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmia unless a cardiac transplantation is performed. We are reporting here an autopsy case of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis with no symptoms in a 27-year old -worker who died suddenly. The purpose of this report is to emphasize that idiopathic giant cell myocarditis is a rare disease and that it could exist in the absence of any symptomatic heart disease.
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