Acute fulminant necrotising lymphocytic myocarditis in a patient with mixed connective tissue disease: a rapid clinical response to immunosuppression

Ulster Med J. 2014 May;83(2):119-20.

Authors

S L Fairley¹, B Herron², C M Wilson¹, M J D Roberts¹

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.
² Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA, UK.

PMID: 25075144
PMCID: PMC4113159

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Biopsy
Drug Therapy, Combination
Electrocardiography
Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
Humans
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous / therapeutic use*
Immunologic Factors / therapeutic use
Immunosuppression Therapy / methods*
Lymphocytes / immunology
Lymphocytes / pathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease / complications
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease / drug therapy*
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease / immunology
Myocarditis / drug therapy*
Myocarditis / etiology
Myocarditis / immunology
Myocardium / immunology
Myocardium / pathology*
Prednisolone / therapeutic use*

Substances

Glucocorticoids
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
Immunologic Factors
Prednisolone