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- Author
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Suppa M, Coppola A, Migliozzi E, Magnanelli E, Negri S, Cavicchi F, Contu E, Petroni C, Colzi M, Mazzocchitti AM, and Scarpellini MG
- Subjects
- Antibodies, Viral blood, Autoantibodies biosynthesis, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated diagnosis, Coxsackievirus Infections diagnosis, Cytokines metabolism, Cytomegalovirus immunology, Cytomegalovirus Infections diagnosis, Diagnosis, Differential, Enterovirus B, Human immunology, Epstein-Barr Virus Infections diagnosis, Herpesvirus 4, Human immunology, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Mitral Valve Insufficiency complications, Pericarditis diagnosis, Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency complications, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left complications, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left physiopathology, Chest Pain etiology, Coxsackievirus Infections complications, Cytomegalovirus Infections complications, Epstein-Barr Virus Infections complications, Myocarditis complications
- Abstract
Myocarditis seems to be mostly caused by a viral infection or more rarely by a pharmacological hypersensitivity or by radiations exposure. Nevertheless, it is not so easy to know the ethiopathogenesis of the myocarditis, because mostly it is impossible to determine the infectious agent that causes the pathology even if it is isolated. The diagnosis could often remain uncertain, so a suspect of myocarditis has to be opportunely confirmed by specific serological and diagnostic investigations, in order to avoid the appearance of a dilated cardiomyopathy which is one of its principal sequences.
- Published
- 2012