Erschienen in:
10.07.2023 | Understanding the Disease
Myocarditis: a primer for intensivists
verfasst von:
Enrico Ammirati, Esther Vorovich, Alain Combes
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2023
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Excerpt
Acute myocarditis is generally a time-limited inflammatory injury of the myocardium, mainly affecting adolescents and young adults [
1,
2]. In approximately 75% of patients, acute myocarditis presents with chest pain and preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and has a benign course [
3]. Conversely, in 25% of patients, myocarditis can have a complicated presentation with LV systolic dysfunction, ventricular arrhythmias, or acute heart failure (HF) [
3]. About 3–9% of patients present with cardiogenic shock at hospital admission or developing early after hospitalization (< 48 h), termed fulminant myocarditis (FM) [
1‐
4]. The treatment of FM is of specific interest to cardiac intensivists, and here, we propose general recommendations to manage adult patients. …