Background—Pulmonary hypertension is a clinically useful predictor of death in patients
with heart failure. Whether pulmonary hypertension has the same prognostic value among …

Although fulminant myocarditis is known as a fatal disease, patients have been able to
recover and return to normal life with the help of mechanical cardiopulmonary support …

Myocarditis is the most common cause of heart failure in children. We investigated viral
etiology of myocarditis/dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in children and correlated molecular …

Background: Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is an uncommon cause of cardiac
failure distinguished clinically from lymphocytic myocarditis by rapidly progressive heart …

Heart failure is an enormous clinical burden in adult medicine, largely because of the preva-
lence of atheromatous coronary disease. In children, where coronary disease is not the …

Definition und Klassifikation: Die gegenwärtig akzeptierte klinisch-pathophysiologische
Einteilung der Kardiomyopathien als Herzmuskelerkrankungen (WHO/ISFC Task Force), die …

Background: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is linked to inflammatory cardiomyopathy
(InfCM). To gain a profound insight into the underlying mechanisms, we phenotypically …

This study was conducted to assess the use of the serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) level as
a noninvasive indicator to differentiate acute myocarditis and chronic dilated …

▪ Abstract Cardiac transplantation remains the gold standard of surgical therapies for
advanced and end-stage heart failure. However, this very limited option trades one disease …

A growing body of evidence suggests that autoimmune responses are involved in the
pathogenesis of myocarditis and postinfectious cardiomyopathy. Autoimmunity may also …