[Endocrine and metabolic myocarditis in a young female diabetic with hyperthyroidism (author's transl)]

A 31-year-old female diabetic in hyperthyroidism, after ketoacidosis leading to a hypoglycaemic coma showed diffuse and persistent abnormalities of ventricular repolarization. Arguments are given for myocardial ischemia of metabolic origin by hypersecretion of catecholamines.