New Delhi: In a first, a 31-year-old male with confirmed monkeypox infection developed acute myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) approximately
Myocarditis was previously associated with smallpox infection, a more aggressive virus, and the case study authors said that `by extrapolation, the monkeypox virus could have tropism for myocardium tissue or cause immune-mediated injury to the heart`.
According to a case study published in the journal JACC: Case Reports, a patient - who contracted monkeypox - returned to the emergency department three days later reporting chest tightness radiating through the left arm