Symptoms of Autoimmune Myocarditis
Symptoms of Autoimmune Myocarditis
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- CHEST PAIN
- "Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs" (2003)
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- Chest pain
- "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
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- Chest Pain
- "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
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- Myocarditis
- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- Chest pain
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Chest pain
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- Chest pain
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Chest Pain
- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
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Symptoms of Autoimmune Myocarditis: Online Medical Books
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Endocarditis:
Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Malaise, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, anorexia, arthralgia, night sweats, chills, valvular insufficiency, intermittent fever, loud murmur
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Myocarditis:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Myocarditis usually causes nonspecific symptoms — such as fatigue, dyspnea, palpitations, and fever — that reflect the accompanying systemic infection. Occasionally, it may produce mild, continuous pressure or soreness in the chest (unlike the recurring, stress-related pain of angina pectoris). Although myocarditis is usually self-limiting, it may induce myofibril degeneration that results in right- and left-sided heart failure, with cardiomegaly, jugular vein distention, dyspnea, persistent fever with resting or exertional tachycardia disproportionate to the degree of fever, and supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. Sometimes myocarditis recurs or produces chronic valvulitis (when it results from rheumatic fever), cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, and thromboembolism.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Pericarditis:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Acute pericarditis typically produces a sharp and often sudden pain that usually starts over the sternum and radiates to the neck, shoulders, back, and arms. However, unlike the pain of MI, pericardial pain is often pleuritic, increasing with deep inspiration and decreasing when the patient sits up and leans forward, pulling the heart away from the diaphragmatic pleurae of the lungs.
Pericardial effusion, the major complication of acute pericarditis, may produce effects of heart failure (such as dyspnea, orthopnea, and tachycardia), ill-defined substernal chest pain, and a feeling of fullness in the chest. (See Patterns of cardiac pain.)
Alert If the fluid accumulates rapidly, cardiac tamponade may occur, resulting in pallor, clammy skin, hypotension, pulsus paradoxus (a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 15 mm Hg or more during slow inspiration), jugular vein distention and, eventually, cardiovascular collapse and death.
Chronic constrictive pericarditis causes a gradual increase in systemic venous pressure and produces symptoms similar to those of chronic right-sided heart failure (fluid retention, ascites, and hepatomegaly).
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Endocarditis:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Early clinical features of endocarditis are usually nonspecific and include malaise, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, anorexia, arthralgia, night sweats, chills, valvular insufficiency and, in 90% of patients, an intermittent fever that may recur for weeks. A more acute onset is associated with highly pathogenic organisms such as S. aureus.
Endocarditis commonly causes a loud, regurgitant murmur that’s typical of the underlying heart lesion. A suddenly changing murmur or the discovery of a new murmur in the presence of fever is a classic physical sign of endocarditis.
In about 30% of patients, embolization from vegetating lesions or diseased valvular tissue may produce the following features of splenic, renal, cerebral, or pulmonary infarction or peripheral vascular occlusion:
❑ splenic infarction: pain in the left upper quadrant, radiating to the left shoulder; abdominal rigidity
❑ renal infarction: hematuria, pyuria, flank pain, decreased urine output
❑ cerebral infarction: hemiparesis, aphasia, or other neurologic deficits
❑ pulmonary infarction (most common in right-sided endocarditis, which usually occurs in I.V. drug abusers and after cardiac surgery): cough, pleuritic pain, pleural friction rub, dyspnea, hemoptysis
❑ peripheral vascular occlusion: numbness and tingling in an arm or a leg, finger, or toe or signs of impending peripheral gangrene.
Other signs include splenomegaly; petechiae of the skin (especially common on the upper anterior trunk) and the buccal, pharyngeal, or conjunctival mucosa; and splinter hemorrhages under the nails. Rarely, endocarditis produces Osler’s nodes (tender, raised subcutaneous lesions on the fingers or toes), Roth’s spots (hemorrhagic areas with white centers on the retina), and Janeway’s lesions (purplish macules on the palms or soles).
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Myocarditis:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Myocarditis usually causes nonspecific symptoms — such as fatigue, dyspnea, palpitations, and fever — that reflect the accompanying systemic infection. Occasionally, it may produce mild, continuous pressure or soreness in the chest (unlike the recurring, stress-related pain of angina pectoris).
Although myocarditis is usually self-limiting, it may induce myofibril degeneration that results in right- and left-sided heart failure, with cardiomegaly, neck vein distention, dyspnea, persistent fever with resting or exertional tachycardia disproportionate to the degree of fever, and supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias.
Sometimes myocarditis recurs or produces chronic valvulitis (when it results from rheumatic fever), cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, and thromboembolism.
» READ BOOK EXCERPT ONLINE »
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Pericarditis:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Clinical features vary in the acute and chronic forms.
Acute pericarditis
In acute pericarditis, a sharp and commonly sudden pain usually starts over the sternum and radiates to the neck, shoulders, back, and arms. However, unlike the pain of an MI, pericardial pain is often pleuritic, increasing with deep inspiration and decreasing when the patient sits up and leans forward, pulling the heart away from the diaphragmatic pleurae of the lungs.
Pericardial effusion, the major complication of acute pericarditis, may produce the effects of heart failure — such as dyspnea, orthopnea, and tachycardia — as well as ill-defined substernal chest pain and a feeling of fullness in the chest.
If the fluid accumulates rapidly, cardiac tamponade may occur, resulting in pallor, clammy skin, hypotension, paradoxical pulse (a decrease in systolic blood pressure equal to or greater than 10 mm Hg during slow inspiration), jugular vein distention and, eventually, cardiovascular collapse and death.
Chronic pericarditis
Chronic constrictive pericarditis causes a gradual increase in systemic venous pressure and produces symptoms similar to those of chronic right-sided heart failure (fluid retention, ascites, hepatomegaly).
» READ BOOK EXCERPT ONLINE »
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
The characteristic symptom of CFIDS is prolonged, often overwhelming fatigue that’s commonly associated with a varying complex of other symptoms. To aid identification of the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses a “working case definition” to group symptoms and severity. (See CDC criteria for diagnosing CFIDS.)
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Myocarditis:
Myocarditis - signs & symptoms
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Prodromal:
- Antecedent flulike illness
- Gastroenteritis
- Rheumatologic symptoms
- Fever
- Left-sided heart failure:
- Exercise intolerance
- Easy fatigability
- Dyspnea
- Orthopnea
- Anorexia, loss of appetite/poor feeding, early satiety
- Emesis (especially in children)
- Right-sided heart failure:
- Abdominal pain/cramping
- Swelling of abdomen/lower extremities
- Loose stools
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
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