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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Published in:Thorax 1984-02, Vol.39 (2), p.155-156
Main Authors: Wallis, P J, Branfoot, A C, Emerson, P A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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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Summary: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