Salmonella typhi infection in children can rarely be complicated by significant cardiac involvement, including myocarditis and pericarditis requiring interventions like pericardiocentesis or pericardiectomy.
Sixty-six patients with Salmonella typhi infections were evaluated in terms of cardiological events in the Department of Pediatrics of Ondokuz Mayis University Hospital for a period of 14 years. Cardiac involvement is described in three cases of typhoid fever during that time. One patient had myocarditis only but another two cases had myocarditis and pericarditis. In addition to antibiotic therapy, pericardiocentesis and pericardiectomy were used. We present three cases of myocarditis caused by Salmonella typhi infections.
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