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She was diagnosed with meningitis and treated with glucocorticoid pulse therapy (methylprednisolone 1000\u00a0mg\/day for 3\u00a0days), followed by glucocorticoid tapering. Despite a normal left ventricular ejection fraction on admission, her left ventricular ejection fraction abruptly declined to 7%, and she subsequently developed cardiogenic shock. She then experienced a sudden cardiac arrest, which required initiation of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and the insertion of an Impella CP. Intravenous cyclophosphamide (1000\u00a0mg) was administered for suspected myocarditis, although an endomyocardial biopsy showed no specific positive staining. Cardiac function did not improve after immunosuppressive therapy. Therefore, plasma exchange was performed five times considering for macrophage activation syndrome, which resulted in the recovery of the left ventricular ejection fraction to 71%. Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was successfully ceased, followed by veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and mechanical ventilation to facilitate respiratory recovery for 39\u00a0days. The aetiology of the myocardial dysfunction remains unclear; however, both cytokine-mediated myocardial dysfunction associated with macrophage activation syndrome and immune-mediated microvascular injury could not be excluded. 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