Complete heart block associated with hepatitis A infection in a female child with fatal outcome

Complete heart block associated with hepatitis A infection in a female child with fatal outcome

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection can cause extra-hepatic manifestations like myocarditis. An 8-year-old female with HAV infection presented with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, and icterus. She developed viral myocarditis with complete AV dissociation on ECG and was treated with a temporary pacema...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) Poland), 2024-02, Vol.19 (1), p.15-9
Hauptverfasser: Ahmed, Mansoor, Naseer, Haseena, Ebad ur Rehman, Mohammad, Basit, Jawad, Nashwan, Abdulqadir J., Arshad, Mateen, Ahmad, Afnan, Asad, Muhammad
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Abdomen
Asymptomatic
Cardiology
Case reports
Consent
Dehydrogenases
Edema
Females
Fever
Heart rate
hepatitis
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis B
Hospitals
Infections
Kinases
Myocarditis
pacemaker
Pacemakers
Pediatrics
Pleural effusion
Viral infections
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Zusammenfassung:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection can cause extra-hepatic manifestations like myocarditis. An 8-year-old female with HAV infection presented with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, and icterus. She developed viral myocarditis with complete AV dissociation on ECG and was treated with a temporary pacemaker, but her condition worsened, and she died. Hepatitis A viral infection can be associated with viral myocarditis and complete heart block that can lead to cardiogenic shock and death eventually.
ISSN:2391-5463
2391-5463
DOI:10.1515/med-2024-0905