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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.26.e58048</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">58048</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Case Report</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Cardiomyopathy (кардиомиопатии)</subject>
          <subject>Epidemiology and Prevention (епидемиология и превенция)</subject>
          <subject>Heart Failure (сърдечна недостатъчност)</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Pneumonia and acute myocarditis revealing COVID-19 infection in histopathology</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zlatancheva</surname>
            <given-names>Galina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">zlatancheva.gal@gmail.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6097-7636</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Vassilev</surname>
            <given-names>Dobrin</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ivanova</surname>
            <given-names>Raya</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Genadieva</surname>
            <given-names>Marusya</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Aleksandrovska University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Aleksandrovska University Hospital</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Galina Zlatancheva (<email xlink:type="simple">zlatancheva.gal@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Plamen Gatzov</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>56</fpage>
      <lpage>60</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/04F14B45-364F-5053-B6F6-782ACECB0978">04F14B45-364F-5053-B6F6-782ACECB0978</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/4422402">4422402</uri>
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      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Galina Zlatancheva, Dobrin Vassilev, Raya Ivanova, Marusya Genadieva</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Cardiac injury is a common condition among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, and it is associated with a higher risk of in-hospital mortality. Since the ﬁrst data analyses in China, elevated cardiac troponin has been noted in a substantial proportion of patients, implicating myocardial injury as a possible pathogenic mechanism contributing to severe illness and mortality. Physicians need to pay heed to the possibility of myocarditis in cases of COVID-19. We present a ﬁrst possible SARS-CoV-2 associated myocarditis case, conﬁrmed by autopsy examination. The overlap with acute coronary syndrome, acute decompensated heart failure should be taken into consideration in the current state to COVID-19 epidemics.</p>
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