Autoimmunity is influenced by genetic, immune, hormonal, and environmental factors. Viral
infections may trigger autoimmunity. It has been established that autoimmunity may be a …

Evidence accumulated in recent years indicates that autoimmunologic mechanisms may
play an important role in the pathogenesis of myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy. In …

Objectives. The present study investigated the presence of antimyosin autoantibodies in
sera of patients with myocarditis and in three control groups: healthy blood donors, patients …

Aim Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy may be phases of an organ-specific
autoimmune disease of the myocardium. To provide evidence for autoimmune involvement …

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by dilation and impaired contraction of the
left ventricle or both; it is a relevant cause of heart failure and a common indication for heart …

Autoimmune disease is characterised by the presence of circulating autoantibodies in the
affected patients and in a proportion of their relatives. These antibodies are generally not …

Myocarditis, often initiated by viral infection, may progress to autoimmune inflammatory heart
disease, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Although cardiac myosin is a dominant …

Infection with type 3 of the group B Coxsackieviruses (CB3) some‐times leads to the
development of myocarditis in humans. Circumstantial evidence in the form of heart‐reactive …

OBJECTIVE--To use an enzyme linked immunoassay (ELISA) technique to assess
frequency and disease specificity of anti-alpha-myosin antibodies in patients with dilated …

Objective In order to explore the possible roles played by the autoimmune mechanism in the
progression of myocarditis into dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) using an animal model, we …