Matthias Gutberlet, MD, PhD, EBCR, is professor of radiology and chairman of the
department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at the Heart Center Leipzig-University …

Myocarditis and/or pericarditis (also known as myopericarditis) are inflammatory diseases
involving the myocardium (with non-ischemic myocyte necrosis) and/or the pericardial sac …

Background Administrative healthcare databases are useful and inexpensive tools that can
provide a comprehensive assessment of the burden of diseases in terms of major outcomes …

Abstract Background The Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD) is a large database of patient‐
level administrative health care records, primarily derived from insurance claims and …

Myocarditis is defined by WHO as an inflammatory disease affecting the myocardium,
diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) using established histological, immunological …

Aims The aim of this registry is to provide data on age-related clinical features of suspected
myocarditis and to create a study platform allowing for deriving diagnostic criteria and, at a …

METHODS We used the Basic Minimum Data Set (BMDS) of the National Surveillance
System for Hospital Data in Spain (Spanish Ministry of Health) to obtain retrospective data in …

Objective To pilot-test a simple checklist designed to improve coding of acute myocardial
infarction (AMI) in hospital discharge abstracts. Background Health records technologists …

Fifty-six cases of sudden death from myocarditis were reviewed to characterize the range of
histologic appearances of myocarditis. All autopsy cases of myocarditis over 13 years (1996 …

Myocarditis is associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the
young. However, information on nationwide burden of SCD caused by myocarditis (SCD …