Diagnosis of viral cardiomyopathy by analysis of peripheral blood?

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1073-1075

  Fett, James D ^a  

^a Deschapelles Haiti   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Inflammatory cardiomyopathy; PCR; Peripartum cardiomyopathy; PPCM; Pregnancy; Virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; COXSACKIE VIRUS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FULMINANT MYOCARDITIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTIC MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; PARVOVIRUS; PERIPARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING ERROR; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRAL CARDIOMYOPATHY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIREMIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 51549105708     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.12.9.1073     Document Type: Editorial

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