Pulmonary hypertension and risk of death in cardiomyopathy: patients with myocarditis are at higher risk

TP Cappola, GM Felker, WHL Kao, JM Hare… - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Pulmonary hypertension is a clinically useful predictor of death in patients
with heart failure. Whether pulmonary hypertension has the same prognostic value among …

National survey of fulminant myocarditis in japan therapeutic guidelines and long-term prognosis of using percutaneous cardiopulmonary support for fulminant …

N Aoyama, T Izumi, K Hiramori, M Isobe… - Circulation …, 2002 - jstage.jst.go.jp
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 …

Molecular diagnosis of myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy in children: clinicopathologic features and prognostic implications

F Calabrese, E Rigo, O Milanesi, GM Boffa… - Diagnostic Molecular …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
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 …

The role of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy for idiopathic giant cell myocarditis

RC Shields, HD Tazelaar, GJ Berry… - Journal of Cardiac …, 2002 - Elsevier
Background: Idiopathic giant cell myocarditis (GCM) is an uncommon cause of cardiac
failure distinguished clinically from lymphocytic myocarditis by rapidly progressive heart …

Heart failure in the young

M Burch - Heart, 2002 - heart.bmj.com
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 …

Dilated cardiomyopathies as a cause of congestive heart failure

B Maisch, AD Ristić, G Hufnagel, R Funck, P Alter… - Herz, 2002 - Springer
Definition und Klassifikation: Die gegenwärtig akzeptierte klinisch-pathophysiologische
Einteilung der Kardiomyopathien als Herzmuskelerkrankungen (WHO/ISFC Task Force), die …

[PDF][PDF] Phenotypic characterization of infiltrates in dilated cardiomyopathy–diagnostic significance of T-lymphocytes and macrophages in inflammatory cardiomyopathy

M Noutsiasabcdef, M Pauschingerabe… - Signature, 2002 - researchgate.net
Background: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is linked to inflammatory cardiomyopathy
(InfCM). To gain a profound insight into the underlying mechanisms, we phenotypically …

Cardiac troponin T: its role in the diagnosis of clinically suspected acute myocarditis and chronic dilated cardiomyopathy in children

J Soongswang, K Durongpisitkul, S Ratanarapee… - Pediatric …, 2002 - Springer
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 …

Surgical management of heart failure: an overview

D Zeltsman, MA Acker - Annual review of medicine, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ 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 …

[PDF][PDF] Cytokines that regulate autoimmune myocarditis

MO Kurrer, M Kopf, JM Penninger, U Erikkson - Swiss medical weekly, 2002 - smw.ch
A growing body of evidence suggests that autoimmune responses are involved in the
pathogenesis of myocarditis and postinfectious cardiomyopathy. Autoimmunity may also …