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Toxic shock syndrome can be complicated by severe left ventricular dysfunction and low cardiac output that is reversible over a five-month period.
Toxic shock syndrome can cause severe but reversible cardiomyopathy.
Highlights possible reversible cardiomyopathy in toxic shock syndrome; hypothesis-generating for incidence and management studies.
A case of severe left ventricular dysfunction and low cardiac output accompanying the toxic shock syndrome was documented by two-dimensional echocardiography and hemodynamic measurements. This dysfunction was reversible over a five-month period. This appears to be a well-documented case of cardiomyopathy and toxic shock syndrome.
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Burns et al. (1982) studied this question. Toxic shock syndrome can be complicated by severe left ventricular dysfunction and low cardiac output that is reversible over a five-month period.
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