Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress 2023 EHA Congress 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

A round-up of the ONWARDS phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the novel weekly insulin icodec in people with diabetes.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 2/2017

01-02-2017 | Letter

Invasive meningococcal disease-induced myocarditis in critically ill adult patients: initial presentation and long-term outcome

Authors: Thomas Madelaine, Martin Cour, Julien Bohé, Bernard Floccard, Serge Duperret, Romain Hernu, Laurent Argaud

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2017

Login to get access

Excerpt

Myocarditis lesions have been found in up to three-quarters of children and young adults dying from invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) with histopathological examinations identifying Neisseria meningitidis in the injured myocardium [1, 2]. These features strongly differ from the usual septic cardiomyopathy, in which neither myocardial necrosis nor the presence of bacteria in the heart are observed [3]. Because the clinical data on IMD-induced myocarditis remain scarce, we aimed to describe the initial presentation and long-term outcome of IMD-induced myocarditis in critically ill adult patients. …
Literature
1.
Hardman JM, Earle KM (1969) Myocarditis in 200 fatal meningococcal infections. Arch Pathol 87:318–325PubMed
2.
Neveling U, Kaschula RO (1993) Fatal meningococcal disease in childhood: an autopsy study of 86 cases. Ann Trop Paediatr 13:147–152CrossRefPubMed
3.
Schmittinger CA, Dünser MW, Torgersen C, Luckner G, Lorenz I, Schmid S, Joannidis M, Moser P, Hasibeder WR, Halabi M, Steger CM (2013) Histologic pathologies of the myocardium in septic shock: a prospective observational study. Shock 39:329–335CrossRefPubMed
4.
Briassoulis G, Narlioglou M, Zavras N, Hatzis T (2001) Myocardial injury in meningococcus-induced purpura fulminans in children. Intensive Care Med 27:1073–1082CrossRefPubMed
5.
Guarner J, Greer PW, Whitney A, Shieh WJ, Fischer M, White EH, Carlone GM, Stephens DS, Popovic T, Zaki SR (2004) Pathogenesis and diagnosis of human meningococcal disease using immunohistochemical and PCR assays. Am J Clin Pathol 122:754–764CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Invasive meningococcal disease-induced myocarditis in critically ill adult patients: initial presentation and long-term outcome
Authors
Thomas Madelaine
Martin Cour
Julien Bohé
Bernard Floccard
Serge Duperret
Romain Hernu
Laurent Argaud
Publication date
01-02-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4623-x

Other articles of this Issue 2/2017

Intensive Care Medicine 2/2017 Go to the issue

Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

An echocardiographic artifact gave us the diagnosis

Editorial

Ventilation-induced lung injury exists in spontaneously breathing patients with acute respiratory failure: Yes

Original

Clusters of ineffective efforts during mechanical ventilation: impact on outcome

Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine

Vertebral erosion: a rare complication of tracheostomy tube

Correspondence

CPR and brain death: confounders, clearance, caution

Original

Assessment of heart rate, acidosis, consciousness, oxygenation, and respiratory rate to predict noninvasive ventilation failure in hypoxemic patients