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What Is Myocarditis

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Myocarditis means inflammation of the heart muscle. The inflammation of the heart muscle causes degeneration or death of heart muscle cells. Myocarditis Types Causes Symptoms Complications Treatment Prognosis Myocarditis can also cause heart failure due to cardiac arrest or dilated cardiomyopathy. What is myocarditis . This muscle is called the myocardium and its function is the give mobility to the heart. Most people with myocarditis recover without any complications but in rare cases when inflammation is severe there can be. Myocarditis is a disease marked by the inflammation of the heart muscle known as the myocardium the muscular layer of. Myocarditis is a rare condition that may cause local or widespread inflammation of the heart myocardium. Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle myocardium that can result from a variety of causes. While most cases are produced by a viral infection an inflammation of the heart muscle may also be instigated by toxin...

Types Of Myocarditis

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For unexplained reasons some women in the very last phase of pregnancy or soon after delivery of the baby develop poor heart muscle function. Acute heart failure inability for heart to perfuse the body Presyncope or syncope. Frontiers Myocarditis In Humans And In Experimental Animal Models Cardiovascular Medicine Myocarditis can also result from infection with Staphylococcus aureus or Corynebacterium diptheriae. Types of myocarditis . This condition is unusual. Myocarditis describes a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by myocardial inflammation in the absence of predominant acute or chronic ischaemia. Another type of myocarditis is peri-partum cardiomyopathy. Some subtypes of myocarditis such as giant cell myocarditis or eosinophilic necrotizing myocarditis are suspected to be caused by an autoimmune inflammation. Chronic persistent myocarditis they have persistent. There are many possible causes of myocarditis see below but the most common cause is a viral in...