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Natural History of Viral Myocarditis: Critical Viewpoints

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Advances in Cardiomyopathies

Abstract

Viral myocarditis is regarded as the most important element in the development of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) [1–4]. Also, our analysis of biopsy samples from the myocardium [5–22] in patients with idiopathic DCM and with arrythmias and/or conduction disturbance of an idiopathic nature showed findings highly suggestive of myocarditis in 15% of the DCM cases and in 8.7% of the cases with arrythmias and/or conduction disturbances [17].

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  1. Istituto Fisiologia Clinica CNR, Dipartimento di Cardiologia A. De Gasperis, Ospedale Niguarda, Ca’ Granda, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3, 20612, Milan, Italy

    G. Baroldi M.D.

  2. Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Ospedale Maggiore, Piazza Ospedale 1, 34129, Trieste, Italy

    F. Camerini M.D.

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    J. F. Goodwin M.D.

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Sekiguchi, M., Hiroe, M., Nunoda, S., Hongo, M., Misawa, T. (1990). Natural History of Viral Myocarditis: Critical Viewpoints. In: Baroldi, G., Camerini, F., Goodwin, J.F. (eds) Advances in Cardiomyopathies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83760-9_30

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