Case report of severe myocarditis in an immunocompromised child with Respiratory Syncytial Virus infection

• Main Authors: Hiroki Miura (Author), Fumihiko Hattori (Author), Hidetoshi Uchida (Author), Tadayoshi Hata (Author), Kazuko Kudo (Author), Masatoki Sato (Author), Tetsushi Yoshikawa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is common and may be severe among patients with preexisting cardiac anomalies, but direct involvement of myocardial damage is not common in those patients. Additionally, myocardial involvement has been rarely described among immune comp...