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Immunosuppressive Treatment in Myocarditis

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New Concepts in Viral Heart Disease

Abstract

“Myocarditis” is defined “as a process characterized by an inflammatory infiltrate of the myocardium with necrosis and/or degeneration of adjacent myocytes not typical of the ischemic damage associated with coronary artery disease” [1]. A viral etiology is generally suspected in most cases observed in the western hemisphere, but it is very difficult to prove a viral pathogenesis in human myocarditis. The disease is, therefore, very often referred to as “idiopathic myocarditis.”

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  2. Departments of Pathology, Ospedale Maggiore and University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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Camerini, F. et al. (1988). Immunosuppressive Treatment in Myocarditis. In: Schultheiß, HP. (eds) New Concepts in Viral Heart Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73610-0_38

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