Background Case definitions are essential to epidemiological research. Objectives To
evaluate ICD‐9 codes 410 and 411 to identify cases of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) …

Myocarditis, ie inflammation of the myocardium, is one of the leading causes of sudden
cardiac death (SCD) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in young adults, and is an important …

Purpose To compare the diagnostic performance of the original Lake Louise criteria (LLC)
and the 2018 LLC for the diagnosis of acute myocarditis and simultaneously validate …

Background Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) type is an important distinction to be made in
both clinical and health care research context, as it determines the treatment of the patient …

Background Understanding the clinical features of myocarditis in various age groups is
required to identify age-specific disease patterns. Objectives The objective of this study was …

Background Myocarditis is a potentially fatal condition that can be misdiagnosed in the
emergency department (ED) setting. Objective The purpose of this narrative review article is …

The objective of this study was to describe a contemporary cohort of pediatric patients
hospitalized for clinically suspected myocarditis. A retrospective chart review was performed …

Abstract Pladevall M (The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, E-607 RAS,
Houston, Texas 77225, USA), Goff DC, Nichaman MZ, Chan F, Ramsey D, Ortiz C and …

Background Clinical courses of acute myocarditis are heterogeneous in populations and
geographic regions. There is a dearth of long-term outcomes data for acute myocarditis prior …

Background: Big data systems such as diagnosis procedure combination (DPC) datasets
have recently been used for research purposes. However, there have been few validation …