What does this Cause of Death mean?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by plmokn

The guy was only 26 years old. This was 1951. He had TB. (Picked it up in a POW camp in Germany.)

Might TB be related to the cause of death? TB is lungs though. That's why this is confusing to me.

Yes actually, a disease/bacteria like that could infect the heart. How sad. He survived Nazi Germany but couldn't escape it's effects

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Yes actually, a disease/bacteria like that could infect the heart.

So tuberculosis can "spread" (?) to your heart?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by plmokn

So tuberculosis can "spread" (?) to your heart?

This will explain it to you better....

Sudden cardiac death and tuberculosis -... [Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

[bluedevilz]

the antecedent causes, post lobectomy upper and right lower lobes isn't referring to the heart.

This person had portions of his lung removed prior to death and it was felt to be a contributing factor to the myocarditis which finally resulted in death.

[Hopes]

Lung diseases can cause congestive heart failure due to fluid building up in the lungs.

For example, my mother had lung cancer but ultimately her cause of death was heart failure.

[plmokn]

Originally Posted by bluedevilz

This person had portions of his lung removed prior to death and it was felt to be a contributing factor to the myocarditis which finally resulted in death.

Which makes some sense since he had TB for several years.

[Hopes]

Here, read this: BMC Infectious Diseases | Full text | Tuberculous dilated cardiomyopathy: an under-recognized entity?

Conclusion

Involvement of myocardium by TB is rare. However it should be suspected as a cause of congestive heart failure in any patient with features suggestive of TB. Increasing recognition of the entity and the use of endomyocardial biopsy may help us detect more cases of this "curable" form of cardiomyopathy.