Myocarditis isinflammationof the heart muscle(also called myocardium). Researchers think that it affects 1.5 million people around the world each year. This means that 1 or 2 out of every 10,000 people have it. It can be acute (symptoms last less than 1 month) or chronic (symptoms last m...
Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle. Cardiomyopathy involves ventricular dilatation or hypertrophy which interferes with cardiac function. There is strong evidence that both may occur in patients treated with clozapine, but the evidence of association with other antipsychotics is weak. ...
Heart failure. Abnormal heart rhythms. Shock. Sudden death. What are the types of myocarditis? There are several types of myocarditis, often depending on the cause. Inflammation of the heart muscle may be: Acute –Sudden onset of myocarditis, often seen in children. Chronic –Myoca...
In this chapter, inflammation of the muscle layer of the heart is discussed. The most common cause is viral, though acute rheumatic fever may cause pericarditis, myocarditis and endocarditis in childhood. The role of Echocardiogram to diagnose myocarditi
Myocarditis:Inflammation of the myocardium, theheart muscle. Myocarditiscan be caused by a number of different conditions. The most common cause is infection of the heart muscle by a virus. The virus causes the initial heart muscle inflammation. After the initialviral infectionsubsides, the body's...
Myocarditis describes the inflammation of the heart muscle, which can be caused by enterovirus infections. Understanding how viruses infect cardiac cells and trigger an immune response is crucial for improving early detection of cardiac dysfunction, treatment, and patient outcomes. Advances in this field...
an inflamed condition of the muscular walls of the heart. See also:Heart -Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. myocarditis Inflammation of the myocardium (main heart muscle) that can weaken the heart, impairing its function. ...
Myocardial inflammationCardiac MRMagnetic resonance imagingMyocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle, diagnosed by histological, immunological, and immunohistochemical criteria. Endomyocardial biopsy represents the diagnostic gold standard for its diagnosis but is infrequently used. Due to its ...
The risk of developing myocarditis—or inflammation of the heart muscle—is seven times higher with a COVID-19 infection than with the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent study by Penn State College of Medicine scientists, now published in Frontiers