Toxoplasmosis is a potential infectious etiology for myocarditis and cardiac failure that may improve with treatment but can leave residual cardiac damage.
Residual damage may persist after treated toxoplasma myocarditis; leaves open larger studies on infectious cardiomyopathy prognosis.
SUMMARY Three cases of cardiac failure are described, in all of which there was strong serological evidence for recent Toxoplasma infection. No other cause for myocardial disease was found. In all cases clinical improvement followed treatment, but evidence of residual cardiac damage persisted. One patient died three years after the initial acute illness, and autopsy findings were consistent with the diagnosis of myocardial toxoplasmosis.
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