Miocardite traumática em Tamanduá-bandeira: relato de caso

Abstract

Myocarditis is a rarely diagnosed ailment of multiple distinct etiologies, unspecific clinical manifestations and ambiguous progression. In veterinary medicine its clinical presumptive diagnosis is confirmed in most cases through post-mortem histological analysis, given that the ante-mortem definitive diagnosis standardized in human medicine, endomyocardial biopsy, is not a common veterinarian procedure. Despite high accuracy in employed histological techniques and dosage of biomarkers to indicate an active course of inflammation of the myocardium, determining its cause and singling out pathogens occurs in the minority of confirmed cases. Considering the limitations surrounding the study of this pathology, especially when it comes to non-domestic species, this paper aims to report a case of suspicion of traumatic myocarditis in a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) following a traffic collision.