[Myocarditis in severe typhoid fever]

The article explains the development of toxic infective myocarditis and, in many cases, pancarditis, in patients with severe typhoid fever (TF) with lethal outcome. The authors present the most frequently found symptoms and ECG signs, the main histological features and possibilities of clinical diagnostics of myocarditis. The latter is of special importance, because a significant number of patients do not have typical clinical presentation. The work is based on the data from 109 autopsy records and 42 case histories as well as the results of morphological study of the heart in archive samples received from 47 military men who died of TF.