Presentation, Patterns of Myocardial Damage, and Clinical Course of Viral Myocarditis

Mahrholdt, Heiko; Wagner, Anja; C. Deluigi, Claudia; Kispert, Eva; Hager, Stefan; Meinhardt, Gabriel; Vogelsberg, Holger; Fritz, Peter; Dippon, Juergen; -Thomas Bock, C.; Klingel, Karin; Kandolf, Reinhard; Sechtem, Udo

doi:10.1161/circulationaha.105.606509

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Presentation, Patterns of Myocardial Damage, and Clinical Course of Viral Myocarditis

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Heiko Mahrholdt

Anja Wagner

Claudia C. Deluigi

Abstract

Background— Enteroviruses and adenoviruses have been considered the most common causes of viral myocarditis, but parvovirus B19 (PVB19) and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) are increasingly found in endomyocardial biopsy samples. Methods and Results— Consequently, our aim was to evaluate the prevalence an...

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