• The specific situation of the patient. Unless otherwise provided for by national regulations,
off-label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in the patient's interest …

Importance Acute myocarditis, defined as a sudden inflammatory injury to the myocardium,
affects approximately 4 to 14 people per 100 000 each year globally and is associated with …

Background: Acute myocarditis is an inflammatory condition that may herald the onset of
dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). We investigated …

In the past decade there has been a growing interest in understanding sex and gender
differences in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and the purpose of this review …

Background The risk of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with acute myocarditis
(AM) and desmosomal gene variants (DGV) remains unknown. Objectives The purpose of …

Dilated cardiomyopathy is conventionally defined as the presence of left ventricular or
biventricular dilatation or systolic dysfunction in the absence of abnormal loading conditions …

Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy is a common form of heart muscle disease in which
genetic factors play a critical etiological role. In this regard, both rare disease‐causing …

Background: The causes of cardiomyopathy in children are less well described than in
adults. We evaluated the clinical diagnoses and genetic causes of childhood …

Traditional cardiomyopathy paradigms segregate inflammatory etiologies from those caused
by genetic variants. An identified or presumed trigger is implicated in acute myocarditis or …

Background: This study aimed to describe the current practice and results of genetic
evaluation in Dutch children with dilated cardiomyopathy and to evaluate genotype …