A passionate endurance cyclist ultimately survives sudden death in right ventricular giant cell myocarditis

Mark R Hazebroek; Pieter van Paassen; Patrick W Weerwind; Leslie T Cooper Jr; Nir Uriel; Kadir Caliskan; Bart de Vries; Jos G Maessen; Rüdiger Autschbach; Stephane Heymans; Dirk W Donker

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.11.028

A passionate endurance cyclist ultimately survives sudden death in right ventricular giant cell myocarditis

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Jan 1;170(3):e74-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.11.028. Epub 2013 Nov 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Gonda Vascular Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁵ Mechanical Circulatory Support Research Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Pathology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
⁹ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Electronic address: d.w.donker@umcutrecht.nl.

PMID: 24290425
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.11.028

No abstract available

Keywords: Biventricular assist device; Endurance exercise; Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Giant cell myocarditis; Sudden cardiac death; Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Bicycling / physiology*
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Giant Cells / physiology
Heart Transplantation*
Heart-Assist Devices
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myocarditis / physiopathology*
Myocarditis / surgery*
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest*
Physical Endurance / physiology
Survivors