Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

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2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation

(2012) et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Interferon-Beta Improves Survival in Enterovirus-Associated Cardiomyopathy

(2012) Uwe Kühl et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Long-Term Follow-Up of Biopsy-Proven Viral Myocarditis

(2012) Stefan Grün et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Update on Myocarditis

(2012) Ingrid Kindermann et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

2011 Consensus statement on endomyocardial biopsy from the Association for European Cardiovascular Pathology and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology

(2011) Ornella Leone et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY

Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Myocarditis (JCS 2009)

(2011) JCS Joint Working Group   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Outcomes, long-term quality of life, and psychologic assessment of fulminant myocarditis patients rescued by mechanical circulatory support*

(2011) Mariana Mirabel et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

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

(2011) F. Mahfoud et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Prognostic electrocardiographic parameters in patients with suspected myocarditis

(2011) Christian Ukena et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

18F-Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography in cardiac sarcoidosis

(2011) Hiroshi Ohira et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING

Myocarditis

(2011) Sandeep Sagar et al.   LANCET

HLA-DR4 antigen and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy susceptibility: a meta-analysis involving 11,761 subjects

(2011) B. Jin et al.   TISSUE ANTIGENS

Comparative Evaluation of Left and Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Biopsy

(2010) Ali Yilmaz et al.   CIRCULATION

Fcγ-Receptor IIa Polymorphism and the Role of Immunoadsorption in Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy

(2010) A Staudt et al.   CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Inflammation increases NT-proBNP and the NT-proBNP/BNP ratio

(2010) Juliana Jensen et al.   Clinical Research in Cardiology

2010 Focused Update of ESC Guidelines on device therapy in heart failure: An update of the 2008 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure and the 2007 ESC guidelines for cardiac and resynchronization therapy Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association and the European Heart Rhythm Association

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Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation: The Task Force for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

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Immunoadsorption in dilated cardiomyopathy: long-term reduction of cardiodepressant antibodies

(2010) Christiane Trimpert et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Cardiac β1-adrenoceptor autoantibodies in human heart disease: rationale and design of theEtiology,Titre-Course, andSurvival (ETiCS) Study

(2010) Nikolas Deubner et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Anti-heart and anti-intercalated disk autoantibodies: evidence for autoimmunity in idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis

(2010) A. L. P. Caforio et al.   HEART

Opposing cardiac effects of autoantibody activation of beta-adrenergic and M2 muscarinic receptors in cardiac-related diseases

(2010) Stavros Stavrakis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Human Parvovirus B19–Associated Myocarditis

(2010) Claus-Thomas Bock et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases as potential biomarkers in chronic heart failure

(2009) Rachael Deardorff et al.   Biomarkers in Medicine

Utility of immunofluorescence and electron microscopy in endomyocardial biopsies from patients with unexplained heart failure

(2009) Rosemary C. She et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY

Successful use of a wearable cardioverter-defibrillator in myocarditis with normal ejection fraction

(2009) Dirk Prochnau et al.   Clinical Research in Cardiology

Diagnostic synergy of non-invasive cardiovascular magnetic resonance and invasive endomyocardial biopsy in troponin-positive patients without coronary artery disease

(2009) H. Baccouche et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Randomized study on the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with virus-negative inflammatory cardiomyopathy: the TIMIC study

(2009) A. Frustaci et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Old and new biomarkers of heart failure

(2009) Michele Emdin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Myocarditis: Infection Versus Autoimmunity

(2009) Noel R. Rose   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Myocarditis: A JACC White Paper

(2009) Matthias G. Friedrich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Potential role of antibodies against cardiac Kv channel-interacting protein 2 in dilated cardiomyopathy

(2008) Martin Landsberger et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

Usefulness of Immunosuppression for Giant Cell Myocarditis

(2008) Leslie T. Cooper et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Antigen-specific Apheresis of Pathogenic Autoantibodies from Myasthenia Gravis Sera

(2008) Socrates J. Tzartos et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Complication Rate of Right Ventricular Endomyocardial Biopsy via the Femoral Approach

(2008) Matthias Holzmann et al.   CIRCULATION

Predictors of Outcome in Patients With Suspected Myocarditis

(2008) Ingrid Kindermann et al.   CIRCULATION

Absence of auto-antibodies against cardiac troponin I predicts improvement of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction

(2008) F. Leuschner et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Acute viral myocarditis

(2008) R. Dennert et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Coronary vasospasm as the underlying cause for chest pain in patients with PVB19 myocarditis

(2008) A Yilmaz et al.   HEART

ACUT2E TSE-SSFP: A hybrid method for T2-weighted imaging of edema in the heart

(2008) Anthony H. Aletras et al.   MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE

Suspected Chronic Myocarditis at Cardiac MR: Diagnostic Accuracy and Association with Immunohistologically Detected Inflammation and Viral Persistence

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