The Prevalence of Myocarditis and Skeletal Muscle Injury During Acute Viral Infection in Adults | Zendy

Kim Greaves | Zendy; John Oxford | Zendy; Christopher P. Price | Zendy; Geraldine H. Clarke | Zendy; Tom Crake | Zendy

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The Prevalence of Myocarditis and Skeletal Muscle Injury During Acute Viral Infection in Adults

Author(s) -

Kim Greaves,

John Oxford,

Christopher P. Price,

Geraldine H. Clarke,

Tom Crake

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.163.2.165

Subject(s) - myocarditis , medicine , creatine kinase , troponin , cardiology , acute myocarditis , troponin i , troponin t , complication , skeletal muscle , viral myocarditis , gastroenterology , myocardial infarction

Current literature suggests that myocarditis is a common event during influenza infection, occurring with a prevalence rate of up to 10%, but these studies have relied on relatively nonspecific techniques of varying sensitivities for the detection of myocyte injury. Using measurement of cardiac troponins I and T, this study sought to determine the prevalence of myocarditis in a large unselected cohort of patients with serologically confirmed acute influenza infection.

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