RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Enterovirus myocarditis as a cause of neonatal collapse
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JO Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP F461
OP F462
DO 10.1136/adc.2003.034439
VO 89
IS 5
A1 D Inwald
A1 O Franklin
A1 D Cubitt
A1 M Peters
A1 A Goldman
A1 M Burch
YR 2004
UL http://fn.bmj.com/content/89/5/F461.abstract
AB Seven neonates required intensive care at our institution with enterovirus myocarditis, 2001–2003. Presentation was at a median age of 9 days. All had ischaemic electrocardiograms, poor ventricular function, raised creatine kinase, and enterovirus RNA detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Four survived. Enterovirus myocarditis may be an under recognised cause of neonatal collapse.