Cardiac toxoplasmosis and pneumocystis pneumonia—A fatal coinfection

Abstract

Cardiac toxoplasmosis is an uncommon disease and is usually seen in the immunocompromised states. Sudden death following cardiac toxoplasmosis has been reported. It’s association with other infections like tuberculosis, aspergillosis and cytomegalovirus has been documented. We report a fatal case of sudden cardiac death following fulminant cardiac toxoplasmosis with pneumocystis pneumonia infection.

Keywords

• Cardiac toxoplasmosis
• Pneumocystis pneumonia
• Autopsy
• Postmortem
• Infections
• Coinfection