Open AccessJunctional ectopic tachycardia in neonatal enterovirus myocarditis
Author(s) -
Weickmann Johannes,
Gebauer Roman Antonin,
Paech Christian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.2796
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , cardiology , tachycardia , enterovirus , differential diagnosis , cardiomyopathy , ventricular tachycardia , heart disease , intensive care medicine , virology , virus , pathology , heart failure
Differential diagnosis is challenging in poor conditioned neonates referred to the emergency room. Infectious disease is common, yet tachycardia should alert the clinician to look for cardiac arrhythmia and comprise. Tachycardia can lead to cardiomyopathy and should warrant further diagnostics for myocarditis, especially in rare or unusual combination of arrhythmias.