Abstract
Infectious myocarditis can be caused by a variety of agents, with enteroviruses being the most common. Myocarditis due to enteric bacteria is rare. We present pathological documentation of a rare case of a Campylobacter jejuni bowel infection leading to rapidly fatal myocarditis.
MeSH terms
- Acute Disease
- Adolescent
- Campylobacter Infections / complications
- Campylobacter Infections / pathology*
- Campylobacter jejuni / isolation & purification*
- Campylobacter jejuni / physiology
- Death, Sudden / etiology
- Death, Sudden / pathology*
- Fatal Outcome
- Feces / microbiology
- Heart Ventricles / microbiology
- Heart Ventricles / pathology
- Humans
- Male
- Myocarditis / microbiology
- Myocarditis / pathology*