Complete Heart Block Associated with Hepatitis A Infection in a Female Child with Fatal Outcome

Overview

Journal Open Med (Wars)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2024 Mar 11

PMID 38463516

Authors

Mansoor Ahmed

Haseena Naseer

Mohammad Ebad Ur Rehman

Jawad Basit

Abdulqadir J Nashwan

Mateen Arshad

Afnan Ahmad

Muhammad Asad

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Abstract

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection can cause extra-hepatic manifestations like myocarditis. An 8-year-old female with HAV infection presented with fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, and icterus. She developed viral myocarditis with complete AV dissociation on ECG and was treated with a temporary pacemaker, but her condition worsened, and she died. Hepatitis A viral infection can be associated with viral myocarditis and complete heart block that can lead to cardiogenic shock and death eventually.

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