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Cholera and Myocarditis

A Case Report

Elias Badui, MD

Arturo Campos, MD

Roberto Enciso, MD

Tarek Fakih, MD

Maria Guadarrama, MD

Aquiles Valdespino, MD

Hector Murillo, MD

Consuelo Calleja, MD

Elias Badui, MD

Bosque de Granados 521 Bosques de las Lomas Mexico, D.F. 11700

The authors describe the case of a fifty-nine-year-old white man, previously in good health, who initiated his present illness with acute episode of enterocolitis characterized by mild fever and, in the next eight hours, twenty-four episodes of watery diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, as well as generalized sweating and severe weakness secondary to hypovolemia and electrolyte disorder. These complications were corrected in seventy- two hours in the intensive care unit. Two days later, when the patient was stable hemo- dynamically, under cardiac monitoring and with normal laboratory studies including serum electrolytes, he developed electrocardiographic changes characterized by trifasci cular block (prolonged P-R interval, complete right bundle branch block [CRBBB] and left posterior hemiblock [LPH]) with a cardiac rate of thirty beats per minute, for which a temporary pacemaker was inserted. Endomyocardial biopsy showed histopathologic signs of myocarditis and the immunologic study of the cardiac tissue revealed positive poly merize chain reaction (PCR+) with the presence of antitoxine choleric antibodies (AcTCA). After three weeks, the same conduction disturbances remained, for which a permanent pacemaker was inserted. On top of intravenous fluid replacement and elec trolyte supplements, the patient was managed with tetracycline 2 g a day for one week and sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim 800/160 mg a day for two weeks. The purpose of this study is to present a rare and very well-documented myocarditis by cholera in a patient with enteric disease, in whom several cardiac complications occurred.

Angiology, Vol. 48, No. 6, 545-549 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979704800610


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