The diagnosis of acute and chronic myocarditis remains a challenge for clinicians.
Characterization of this disease has been hampered by its diverse etiologies and …

Myocarditis—a frequent cause of dilated cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death—
typically results from cardiotropic viral infection followed by active inflammatory destruction …

Viral myocarditis remains a prominent infectious-inflammatory disease for patients
throughout the lifespan. The condition presents several challenges including varied modes …

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disorder of the heart muscle, and is often underdiagnosed in
clinical practice. It presents more dramatically in the young with acute heart failure and more …

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the cardiac muscle caused by myocardial
infiltration of immunocompetent cells following any kind of cardiac injury. Classic myocarditis …

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium with focal or diffuse involvement.
Viral infections are the most common cause of myocarditis, especially in Western countries …

Treatment of myocarditis is still problematic and may depend on etiologic diagnosis to
distinguish infectious from immune-mediated disease. Both pathogenic mechanisms may co …

Viral myocarditis: a prime example for endomyocardial biopsy... : Current Opinion in Cardiology
Viral myocarditis: a prime example for endomyocardial biopsy-guided diagnosis and therapy …

Myocarditis represents a heterogeneous final common pathway for myocardial inflammation
of diverse etiologies and accounts for up to one-third of cases of dilated cardiomyopathy …

Abstract “Since the pathological conditions take place at the cellular level, viral myocarditis
and postinfectious autoimmunity can be suggested but not diagnosed clinically. All clinical …