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[Coxsackie B4 infection, myopericarditis and diabetes mellitus]
R M Gomes1, A T Sanches, M A Gonzalez
1Serviço de Medicina I, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.
Acta Medica Portuguesa
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
The authors described a case of acute miopericarditis with evolution towards dilated cardiomiopathy, secondary to Coxsackie B4 infection, in a patient developing a concomitant insulin dependent diabetes (DIDM), admitted to be also an expression of this infection. The pathogenesis and the immunological basis of this aggression is discussed and some therapeutic considerations made.