The European Study of Epidemiology and Treatment of Cardiac Inflammatory Diseases (ESETCID): First epidemiological results

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-285

  Hufnagel, Günter ^a   Pankuweit, Sabine ^b   Richter, Annette ^b   Schönian, Ute ^b   Maisch, Bernhard ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Endomyocardial biopsy; Myocarditis; Treatment; Viral etiology

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MISOPROSTOL; PREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTEROVIRUS; HEART DILATATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDITIS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VIRUS GENOME;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MYOCARDITIS; PREDNISOLONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0033918086     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000590050021     Document Type: Article

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