Sudden death due to myocardial tuberculosis

Tuberculous myocarditis is rare and usually complicates typical tuberculous disease elsewhere. Although tuberculosis is usually associated with an insidious onset, symptoms being present for several weeks or even months before medical help is sought, in its miliary form it may cause prostration and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Thorax 1984-02, Vol.39 (2), p.155-156
Hauptverfasser:	Wallis, P J, Branfoot, A C, Emerson, P A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Death, Sudden - etiology Human bacterial diseases Humans Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Mycobacterium tuberculosis Myocarditis - complications Myocarditis - pathology Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular - complications Tuberculosis, Cardiovascular - pathology
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Zusammenfassung:	Tuberculous myocarditis is rare and usually complicates typical tuberculous disease elsewhere. Although tuberculosis is usually associated with an insidious onset, symptoms being present for several weeks or even months before medical help is sought, in its miliary form it may cause prostration and sudden death, as this report illustrates.
ISSN:	0040-6376 1468-3296
DOI:	10.1136/thx.39.2.155