Virus serology in patients with suspected myocarditis: Utility or futility?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 897-903

  Mahfoud, Felix ^a   Grtner, Barbara ^a   Kindermann, Michael ^a   Ukena, Christian ^a   Gadomski, Katharina ^a   Klingel, Karin ^b   Kandolf, Reinhard ^b   Bhm, Michael ^a   Kindermann, Ingrid ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB); Myocarditis; Virus serology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIOPSY; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953727876     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq493     Document Type: Article

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