Human parvoviruses

J Qiu, M Söderlund-Venermo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Parvovirus B19 (B19V) and human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1), members of the large
Parvoviridae family, are human pathogens responsible for a variety of diseases. For B19V in …

Inflammatory cardiomyopathic syndromes

BH Trachtenberg, JM Hare - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Inflammatory activation occurs in nearly all forms of myocardial injury. In contrast,
inflammatory cardiomyopathies refer to a diverse group of disorders in which inflammation of …

Pediatric cardiomyopathies

TM Lee, DT Hsu, P Kantor, JA Towbin… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Pediatric cardiomyopathies are rare diseases with an annual incidence of 1.1 to 1.5 per 100
000. Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies are the most common; restrictive …

[HTML][HTML] How to: establish and run a stool bank

EM Terveer, YH Van Beurden, A Goorhuis… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Since 2013, several stool banks have been developed following publications
reporting on clinical success of 'faecal microbiota transplantation'(FMT) for recurrent …

Occurrence and features of childhood myocarditis: a nationwide study in Finland

A Arola, E Pikkarainen, JOT Sipilä, J Pykäri… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Epidemiology of myocarditis in childhood is largely unknown. Men are known to
have a higher incidence of myocarditis than women in adults aged< 50 years, but whether …

Myocarditis: a clinical overview

ALP Caforio, G Malipiero, R Marcolongo… - Current Cardiology …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review In this paper we will review the modern diagnostic approach to
patients with clinically suspected myocarditis as well as the treatment modalities and …

The PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is involved in CVB3-induced autophagy of HeLa cells

H Chang, X Li, Q Cai, C Li, L Tian… - International …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Recent studies have found that viral myocarditis (VMC) associated with coxsackievirus B3
(CVB3) causes autophagy activation after infection, but the specific mechanism is not clear …

Age-associated changes in estrogen receptor ratios correlate with increased female susceptibility to coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis

A Koenig, I Buskiewicz, SA Huber - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Sexual bias is a hallmark in various diseases. This review evaluates sexual dimorphism in
clinical and experimental coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) myocarditis, and how sex bias in the …

Myocardial expression of toll‐like receptor 4 predicts the response to immunosuppressive therapy in patients with virus‐negative chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy

C Chimenti, R Verardo, F Scopelliti… - European journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We sought to determine whether myocardial expression of Toll‐like receptor 4 (TLR4)
may predict the response to immunosuppression. Methods and results Endomyocardial …

Persistent RNA virus infections: do PAMPS drive chronic disease?

MK McCarthy, TE Morrison - Current opinion in virology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many persistent RNA virus infections are associated with chronic
disease.•Chronic disease mechanisms in these infections are poorly understood.•Persistent …