2053 Mesalamine-Induced Myocarditis in a Patient With Newly Diagnosed IBD
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Mesalamine, a 5-ASA agent, is used as first line treatment in mild to moderate IBD. Adverse reactions include GI symptoms and often do not require discontinuation of therapy. Inflammation of the myocardium (myocarditis) is a rare but potentially lethal complication of mesalamine treatment. Early recognition and intervention is vital to prevent progression of inflammation and adverse patient outcomes. CASE DESCRIPTION/METHODS: A 62-year-old woman presented with an 8 month history of GI symptoms. Colonoscopy demonstrated patchy colonic inflammation which was biopsy confirmed. She was treated with mesalamine 500 mg PO OD. At a 6-week follow up visit, she had mild dyspnea and chest discomfort, but a direct causal relationship with mesalamine was not delineated. Due to persistent GI symptoms, her mesalamine dose was increased to 2 g PO BID. After 9 days her cardiorespiratory symptoms worsened. She was advised to discontinue mesalamine and seek emergency care. She was admitted to the CCU where an echocardiogram demonstrated an EF of 15%. Ischemic heart disease was ruled out with cardiac catheterization. Cardiac MRI was consistent with myocarditis. She was started on prednisone 20 mg OD. Following discontinuation of mesalamine with prednisone treatment, her cardiorespiratory symptoms improved. Follow-up echocardiogram showed minimal improvement (EF 20%). DISCUSSION: Mesalamine associated myocarditis is a rare phenomenon that presents 2-4 weeks after initiation of therapy. It is associated with severe clinical sequelae including myocardial dysfunction and death. Early case reports suspected the cause was the sulfapyridine group of sulfasalazine. There have been subsequent case reports of myocarditis from 5-ASA alone. The mechanism is believed to be a hypersensitivity reaction rather than direct cardiotoxicity. Supporting this theory are reports of return of symptoms when a 5-ASA agent is reintroduced. Clinical presentation is variable, and patients may present with normal laboratory and imaging studies. Myocarditis can rarely represent an extra intestinal manifestation of IBD. The improvement of this patient’s symptoms with discontinuation of mesalamine, and the temporal relationship between symptom onset and initiation of mesalamine favors mesalamine induced myocarditis. Given the significant consequences of this rare adverse reaction, dyspnea and chest discomfort in a patient on mesalamine should evoke prompt and permanent discontinuation of the drug. Delayed recognition can lead to patient morbidity.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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