• Journal of critical care · Oct 2018

    Case Reports

    When the heart gets the flu: Fulminant influenza B myocarditis: A case-series report and review of the literature.

    • Guillaume Hékimian, Tamara Jovanovic, Nicolas Bréchot, Guillaume Lebreton, Pascal Leprince, Jean-Louis Trouillet, Matthieu Schmidt, Ania Nieszkowska, Sébastien Besset, Jean Chastre, Alain Combes, and Charles-Edouard Luyt.
    • Département de Réanimation Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM, UMRS_1166-ICAN Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France. Electronic address: guillaume.hekimian@aphp.fr.
    • J Crit Care. 2018 Oct 1; 47: 61-64.

    PurposeTo describe patients with refractory cardiogenic shock related to influenza B virus myocarditis rescued by venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA-ECMO).Material And MethodsConsecutive patients hospitalized in our unit for influenza-associated myocarditis were prospectively included. We also conducted a systematic MEDLINE database literature review through the PubMed search engine, between 1946 and 2017.ResultsWe report the cases of 4 young patients with fulminant myocarditis requiring VA-ECMO for 6 [5-8] days. Influenza B virus was detected in all patients, either in nasopharyngeal sampling or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. The 4 patients received oseltamivir. Heart function recovery allowed ECMO device removal without cardiac sequelae in all 4 patients. Systematic review retrieved 184 cases of influenza-associated myocarditis, most cases associated with H1N1 type-A infection during the 2009 pandemic. Forty eight cases of influenza myocarditis-associated cardiogenic shock requiring mechanical circulatory support including 3 cases due to influenza B virus were described. Mean duration of mechanical circulatory support was 8.5 ± 6 days and mortality rate was 33%.ConclusionsInfluenza myocarditis is a rare but reversible cause of cardiogenic shock amenable to VA-ECMO rescue. Early antiviral therapy and ECMO support should be considered for patients with fulminant myocarditis during an influenza epidemic.Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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