Introduction Autoimmune myocarditis may develop due to heterogeneous causes.
Myocarditis is often caused by viral infections, but it can also be caused by systemic …

Infiltration of the myocardium with various cell types, cytokines and chemokines plays a
crucial role in the pathogenesis of cardiomyopathies including inflammatory …

Myocarditis is the inflammation of the muscle tissues of the heart (myocardium). After a
pathologic cardiac-specific inflammatory process, it may progress to chronic damage and …

Autoimmunity significantly contributes to the pathogenesis of myocarditis, underscored by its
increased frequency in autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and …

According to the current WHO classification of cardiomyopathies, myocarditis is an
inflammatory disease of the myocardium and is diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy using …

Abstract Purpose of Review Over the last decade, myocarditis has been increasingly
recognized as common cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults and heart failure …

This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, clinically oriented guide to the diagnosis and
treatment of patients with myocarditis. The opening chapters address the classification …

Viral myocarditis is a frequent and often unrecognised cause of post-inflammatory
cardiomyopathy. The role of viral persistence and heartspecific autoimmunity in the …

Histologically proven myocarditis has a polymorphic clinical presentation with variable
modality of onset ranging from fulminant to acute, subacute or chronic arrhythmia or heart …

Heart failure has become an increasingly prevalent disorder with considerable morbidity
and mortality. While many causal mechanisms such as inherited cardiomyopathies …