Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart that may occur because of infections,
immune system activation, or exposure to drugs. The diagnosis of myocarditis has changed …

or therapeutic medical strategies. However, the ESC Guidelines do not override in any way
whatsoever the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate and …

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 …

Up to 20%–30% of patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have
evidence of myocardial involvement. Acute cardiac injury in patients hospitalized with …

Myocardial diseases are associated with an increased risk of potentially fatal cardiac
arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death/cardiac arrest during exercise, including hypertrophic …

Heart failure is a consequence of various cardiovascular diseases and associated with poor
prognosis. Despite progress in the treatment of heart failure in the past decades, prevalence …

Background: There is controversy about the outcome of patients with acute myocarditis (AM),
and data are lacking on how patients admitted with suspected AM are managed. We report …

Myocarditis—a frequent cause of dilated cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death—
typically results from cardiotropic viral infection followed by active inflammatory destruction …

During acute or chronic lung injury, inappropriate immune response and/or aberrant repair
process causes irreversible damage in lung tissue and most usually results in the …

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