Myocarditis is defined as an inflammation of the cardiac muscle. In humans, various
infectious and non-infectious triggers induce myocarditis with a broad spectrum of …

We review recent manuscripts concerning the pathogenesis as well as the treatment of
myocarditis. The development of myocarditis is related to inflammatory cell infiltration …

A growing body of evidence has been accumulating to demonstrate that human myocarditis
and dilated cardiomyopathy involve a complex interaction with autoimmunity triggered by …

In this study, we evaluate cell death, proliferation and repair in left ventricular
endomyocardial biopsies from 20 patients with active lymphocytic myocarditis worsening or …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether monoclonal antimyosin Fab (antigen
binding fragment) was capable of labeling hearts with experimental coxsackievirus …

Myocarditis is an important cause of heart failure among adolescents and young adults. A
remarkable observation is the discrepancy between the limited overt evidence of myocyte …

Infections (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, fungi) are major etiological factors causing clinical
myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy. In many patients and symptom-free relatives …

9a, including those from experimental work in myo-ºrditis, show that even in mice, this issue
is contro-VerSial. Grun et al.(Microb Pathog 1989, 4.417–430) ºribute necrosis in their model …

To explain the progression from infectious viral myocarditis to congestive cardiomyopathy an
infection/immune hypothesis has been proposed stating that the primary viral process incites …