Hepatitis A virus infection can rarely cause fatal viral myocarditis with complete heart block in children.
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Rare fatal HAV myocarditis with AV block in children; leaves open need for cardiac monitoring in severe cases.
Hepatitis A virus infection can cause extra-hepatic manifestations like myocarditis. An 8-year-old female with HAV infection presented with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, and icterus. She developed viral myocarditis with complete AV dissociation on ECG and was treated with a temporary pacemaker, but her condition worsened, and she died.
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