Myopericarditis as a complication of severe influenza in a patient in the postpartum period

Abstract

The spread of viral infections on the scale of epidemics and pandemics is appeared to be a heavy socioeconomic burden for society, which is primarily due to the growth of severe and complicated forms of the disease. The presence of complications from the cardiovascular system has been traced since the beginning of the first influenza pandemic in 1918 in Spain and has been consistently recorded in subsequent years. A clinical case of post-influenza myopericarditis that occurred in the postpartum period in a 39-year-old woman is described. The described clinical case demonstrates the importance of the clinical stage of diagnosis of myocarditis, and also demonstrates the possibility of successful use of systemic glucocorticosteroids in the absence of endomyocardial biopsy data. This clinical example represents a favorable outcome of viral myopericarditis, rapid regression of signs of heart failure against the background of complex therapy: a combination of standard therapy for chronic heart failure with immunosuppressive therapy.