Chronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy [Paperback]

Overview on Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy/Chronic Myocarditis.-Unsolved Medical Issues and New Targets for Further Research in Viral Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- Frontiers in Viral Diagnostics.- Is Virus Persistence a Determinant for Disease Progression?- Parvovirus B19 - The Causative Agent of Dilated Cardiomyopathy or an Harmless Passenger of the Human Myocard?- Parvovirus B19: A New Emerging Pathogenic Agent of Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy.- Role of Hepatitis C Virus in Cardiomyopathies.-Recent Insights into the Role of Host Innate and Acquired Immunity Responses.- The Significance of Autoimmunity in Myocarditis.- The Roles of Immunity and Autoimmunity in Chronic Heart Failure.- Clinical Implications of Anti-Cardiac Immunity in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- Inflammation and Cardiac Remodeling During Viral Myocarditis.- Is There a Virus Specific Matrix Destruction in the Course of Disease in Dilated Cardiomyopathy?- New Non-Invasive Approaches for the Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy: MRI.-New Therapeutics Targets in Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy.-Anti-Viral Treatment in Patients with Virus-Induced Cardiomyopathy.- Immunosuppressive Treatment of Chronic Non-Viral Myocarditis.-Immunoabsorption in Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Latest insights in the research, advancing and understanding of what causes chronic viral and inflammatory cardiomayopathy, how we can develop better therapies, whether the disease can be prevented

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