ArticlePostgraduate medical journal2012
Republished: pathogenesis and diagnosis of myocarditis.
Article in Postgraduate medical journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and safety of creatine phosphate sodium in the treatment of viral myocarditis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Myocardial and Vascular Involvement in COVID-19 and Post-Vaccination States: Understanding Injury Pathways and Clinical Implications.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Review
- Treatment strategy for acute myocarditis in pediatric patients requiring emergency intervention.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Relationship between echocardiographic characteristics and cardiac biomarkers during long-distance trail running.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Cardiovascular consequences of viral infections: from COVID to other viral diseases.Cardiovascular research · 2021Review
- Viral Myocarditis-From Pathophysiology to Treatment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Review
- Persistent Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features of Myocarditis Detected Months After COVID-19 Infection.Cureus · 2021Article
- Opioid-Induced Immunomodulation: Consequences for the Experimental Coxsackievirus B3-Induced Myocarditis Model.Biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Acute myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle that may progress to dilated cardiomyopathy and chronic heart failure. A number of factors including the sex hormone testosterone, components of innate immunity, and profibrotic cytokines have been identified in animal models as important pathogenic mechanisms that increase inflammation and susceptibility to chronic dilated cardiomyopathy. The clinical presentation of acute myocarditis is non-specific and mimics more common causes of heart failure and arrhythmias. Suspected myocarditis is currently confirmed using advanced non-invasive imaging and histopathologic examination of heart tissue. However, the diverse presentations of myocarditis and the lack of widely available, safe, and accurate non-invasive diagnostic tests remain major obstacles to early diagnosis and population based research. Recent advances in the understanding of disease pathogenesis described in this review should lead to more accurate diagnostic algorithms and non-invasive tests.
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