Diagnosis and management of myocarditis in children: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

YM Law, AK Lal, S Chen, D Čiháková, LT Cooper Jr… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Myocarditis remains a clinical challenge in pediatrics. Originally, it was recognized at
autopsy before the application of endomyocardial biopsy, which led to a histopathology …

Diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of myocarditis in children

A Putschoegl, S Auerbach - Pediatric Clinics, 2020 - pediatric.theclinics.com
Myocarditis is defined as an inflammatory myocardial disease diagnosed by a combination
of histologic, immunologic, and immunohistochemical criteria. 1 More simply, it is known as …

Pathogenic variants associated with dilated cardiomyopathy predict outcome in pediatric myocarditis

F Seidel, M Holtgrewe… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Myocarditis is one of the most common causes leading to heart failure in
children and a possible genetic background has been postulated. We sought to characterize …

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance/European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging/American Society of Echocardiography/Society for Pediatric Radiology …

MA Fogel, S Anwar, C Broberg, L Browne… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance has been utilized in the management and care of
pediatric patients for nearly 40 years. It has evolved to become an invaluable tool in the …

Pediatric myocarditis: what have we learnt so far?

E Pomiato, MA Perrone, R Palmieri… - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium that is troublesome to diagnose
and manage, especially in children. Since the introduction of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) …

Severe heart failure and the need for mechanical circulatory support and heart transplantation in pediatric patients with myocarditis: results from the prospective …

S Schubert, B Opgen‐Rhein, M Boehne… - Pediatric …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Myocarditis represents an important cause for acute heart failure. MYKKE, a prospective
multicenter registry of pediatric patients with myocarditis, aims to gain knowledge on …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical presentation and early predictors for poor outcomes in pediatric myocarditis: a retrospective study

M Rodriguez-Gonzalez… - World Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Myocarditis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children,
leading to long-term sequelae including chronic congestive heart failure, dilated …

Dynamically borrowing strength from another study through shrinkage estimation

C Röver, T Friede - Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Meta-analytic methods may be used to combine evidence from different sources of
information. Quite commonly, the normal–normal hierarchical model (NNHM) including a …

Clinical characteristics and outcome of biopsy-proven myocarditis in children–Results of the German prospective multicentre registry “MYKKE”

F Seidel, B Opgen-Rhein, A Rentzsch… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Heart failure (HF) due to myocarditis might not respond in the same way to
standard therapy as HF due to other aetiologies. The aim of this study was to investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical course and follow-up of pediatric patients with COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis compared to non–vaccine-associated myocarditis within the …

N Rolfs, C Huber, E Schwarzkopf, D Mentzer… - American Heart …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Since the onset of widespread COVID-19 vaccination, increased incidence of
COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis (VA-myocarditis) has been noted, particularly in …