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Autopsy confirms rare idiopathic giant cell myocarditis caused sudden death in a healthy 45-year-old male.
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Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis is a rare but critical cause of sudden cardiac death in young, otherwise healthy individuals that requires careful gross and histological examination to diagnose.
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Highlights idiopathic giant cell myocarditis as a rare sudden death cause in healthy adults; case reports leave open strategies for premortem detection.
Giant-cell myocarditis is an extremely rare disease of relatively young, predominantly healthy adults.The patients usually die of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmia unless a cardiac transplantation is performed.We present a case of sudden death in a healthy 45 years old male due to giant cell myocarditis having history of sudden collapse and ultimately death.Histopathology findings of the heart showed noncaseating granulomas with numerous giant cells.Ziehl-Neelsen staining of the sections for acid fast bacilli was negative; stains for fungi were also negative.So, this case is strongly considered to be a case of sudden death due to myocarditis as a result of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis, a rare case in literature.
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Ravneet Badhan (2018) conducted a case report in Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis (n=1). Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis was evaluated on Autopsy findings. Autopsy of a 45-year-old healthy male who died suddenly revealed non-caseating granulomas with numerous giant cells, confirming a rare case of sudden death due to idiopathic giant cell myocarditis.
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