Ventricular arrhythmia: A feature of tubercular myocarditis

Abstract

Tuberculat myocarditis is an extremely rare entity with few published reports. We report a 13 year old male who presented with ventriculat tachycardia. On evaluation he was observed to have MRI features and workup consistent with nodular variant of tubercular myocarditis. Child had fatal outcome on follow up.

Keywords

• Tubercular myocarditis
• ventricular arrhythmia
• magnetic resonance imaging