Excerpt Sakakibara and Konno in 1962 (1) and 1963 (2) first described a safe technique for
transvascular, closed chest, right and left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy. Ten years later …

Myocarditis is an enigmatic disease. Lymphocytic myocarditis is most commonly viral in
origin. Considerable evidence suggests that myocardial damage is due to an immune …

The purpose of this study was to identify the histologic characteristics of human myocardium
in congestive heart failure (CHF) by cellular hypertrophy, nuclear area, endocardial …

Study Objective: To determine the incidence of myocarditis proved by biopsy findings in
patients presenting with unexplained congestive heart failure. Design: Retrospective review …

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Before the introduction of the endomyocardial bioptome as a diagnostic tool [1] the
diagnosis of myocarditis, although often clinically suspected, could not be confirmed in vivo …

The application of transvenous endomyocardial biopsy to the evaluation of patients with
unexplained heart failure has resulted in a rebirth of enthusiasm for the identification of …

The precise mechanisms leading to immune-mediated damage of the human myocardium
following viral infection are unknown. In the murine model infection with Coxsackie B or …

Nahezu die Hälfte aller Patienten mit dilatativer Kardiomyopathie verstirbt unerwartet am
plötzlichen Herztod. Aufgrund von Langzeit-EKG Registrierungen von Patienten, die zufällig …

In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurde die prognostische Bedeutung einer quantitativen
morphometrischen Analyse von Endomyocardbiopsien bei 124 Patienten mit dilatativer …