Catalog

Myocarditis due to toxoplasmosis

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Link to WHO Definition

Myocarditis due to toxoplasmosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/208991430

Myocarditis due to toxoplasmosis (toxoplasma gondii) is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to external antigens originating from a toxoplasma gondii infection, an obligate, intracellular, parasitic protozoan that causes the disease Toxoplasmosis.