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Incidental Histological Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Myocarditis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, November 2014
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Title
Incidental Histological Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Myocarditis: Case Report and Review of the Literature
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, November 2014
DOI 10.3389/fped.2014.00126
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Authors

Guilherme S. Spina, Roney O. Sampaio, Carlos E. Branco, George B. Miranda, Vitor E. E. Rosa, Flávio Tarasoutchi

Abstract

Rheumatic fever (RF) remains endemic in many countries and frequently causes heart failure due to severe chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease, which requires surgical treatment. Here, we report on a patient who underwent an elective surgical correction for mitral and aortic valvular heart disease and had a post-operative diagnosis of acute rheumatic carditis. The incidental finding of Aschoff bodies in myocardial biopsies is frequently reported in the nineteenth-century literature, with prevalences as high as 35%, but no clinical or prognostic data on the patients is included. The high frequency of this finding after cardiac surgery in classical reports suggests that these patients were not using secondary prophylaxis for RF. We discuss the clinical diagnosis of acute rheumatic myocarditis in asymptomatic patients and the laboratorial and imaging methods for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic carditis. We also discuss the prognostic implications of this finding and review the related literature.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Student > Master 4 15%
Researcher 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 9 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 44%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 8 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2021.
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#17,732,540
of 22,771,140 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Pediatrics
#2,893
of 5,928 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#247,786
of 362,064 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Pediatrics
#16
of 30 outputs
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