Complete atrioventricular block associated with toxoplasma myocarditis

Europace. 2006 Mar;8(3):221-3. doi: 10.1093/europace/euj046. Epub 2006 Feb 13.

Abstract

Myocarditis has been described during and after a wide variety of infectious agents: viral, rickettsial, bacterial, protozoal, and metazoal diseases may cause cardiac inflammation. We report a case of toxoplasma myocarditis in a young healthy man.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Heart Block / etiology*
  • Heart Block / parasitology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocarditis / diagnosis
  • Myocarditis / parasitology*
  • Toxoplasmosis / complications*
  • Toxoplasmosis / diagnosis