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Fulminant Myocarditis Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection: JACC Patient Care Pathways
Saurabh Rajpal1, Rami Kahwash1, Matthew S Tong1
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Abstract:
A 60-year-old woman with a past medical history of asthma presented with fulminant myocarditis 9 days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 16 days after developing symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Her hospital course was complicated by the need for veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ventricular arrhythmias, and pseudomonas bacteremia. She ultimately recovered and was discharged to home with normal left ventricular systolic function. Thereafter, she developed symptomatic ventricular tachycardia, for which she received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and antiarrhythmic drug therapy.

