Myocarditis and pericarditis in young patients following Campylobacter jejuni enterocolitis infection: a systematic review of case studies

Table 4 Differential diagnosis, imaging, diagnosis, and treatment of included case reports

Author and year	Differential diagnosis considered	Initial EKG results	Initial troponin results^b	Diagnosis	Antibiotic treatment
Daboussi et al. (2020)¹²	Not reported	Normal	Elevated	Myocarditis	Erythromycin
Yaita et al. (2020)¹⁶	ACS considered unlikely, viral source^a	ST elevation	Elevated	Myocarditis	None
Chantazaras et al. (2021)¹⁷	Infectious enteritis versus acute appendicitis	Normal	Elevated	Myocarditis	Azithromycin
Miruzzi et al. (2022)¹⁰	Viral source	ST elevation	Elevated	Myopericarditis	Ciprofloxacin
Obafemi et al. (2017)¹⁵	ACS considered unlikely	ST depression	Elevated	Myocarditis	Meropenem and ciprofloxacin
Fica et al. (2012)¹⁸	Viral source	ST elevation	Elevated	Myopericarditis	Azithromycin
Ayyildiz et al. (2018)¹⁹	Not reported	ST changes Left anterior hemiblock	Elevated	Myocarditis	Ciprofloxacin

ACS acute coronary syndrome, NA not applicable
^aViral source includes variations of the following viruses: Epstein‒Barr virus, human immunodeficiency virus, echovirus, coxsackievirus, or parvovirus
^bTroponin I and/or T

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