Myocarditis may be attributable to monkeypox infection CDCgov Monkeypox MonkeypoxInfection Myocarditis
By Nidhi Saha, BDSOct 5 2022Reviewed by Aimee Molineux A new study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, found that myocardial infiltration could cause myocarditis during monkeypox virus infection.
There is typically a fever at the beginning of the illness, followed by the appearance of multiple papular lesions and inflammatory lesions on the skin, including vesiculopustular rash and ulcers. The infection can cause complications like pneumonitis, encephalitis, keratitis, secondary bacterial infections, acute kidney injury, and myocarditis. Young and immunocompromised individuals are at a higher risk of monkeypox virus infections.
Patient 2 was a 37-year-old man who suffered from rash, fever, dyspnea, and reduced exercise tolerance. He was reported to have had sexual encounters with multiple partners 13 days before hospitalization. Five days after exposure, his symptoms commenced with bilateral inguinal lymphadenopathy, followed by multiple skin lesions in both arms and a lesion at the base of the penis, and after that, fatigue, low-grade fever, and chills.
The C-reactive protein was 0.5 mg/dL, and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 11 mm/h. The patient samples were negative for enterovirus, adenovirus, SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibodies, parvovirus, cytomegalovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, coccidioidomycosis, and human herpesvirus 6.
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