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Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection caused fatal myopericarditis presenting with cardiac tamponade in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl, with viral sequences identified directly in myocardial tissues.
Case Report (n=1)
Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus can directly infect the myocardium and pericardium, leading to fatal myopericarditis and cardiac tamponade in previously healthy children.
Alerts clinicians to rare fatal tamponade risk in pediatric H1N1; leaves open incidence and mechanisms of direct invasion.
We describe a fatal case of myopericarditis presenting with cardiac tamponade in a previously healthy 11-year-old child. Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus sequences were identified in throat and myocardial tissues and pericardial fluid, suggesting damage of myocardial cells directly caused by the virus.
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Puzelli et al. (2010) conducted a case report in Myopericarditis with cardiac tamponade (n=1). Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection was evaluated on Fatal myopericarditis with cardiac tamponade. Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection caused fatal myopericarditis presenting with cardiac tamponade in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl, with viral sequences identified directly in myocardial tissues.
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