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miocardite
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malattia infiammatoria acquisita che coinvolge il muscolo cardiaco e che riconosce diversi agenti causali
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that can cause symptoms like shortness of breath, chest pain, and irregular heartbeat, with effects lasting anywhere from hours to months. In serious cases, it can progress to heart failure or lead to life-threatening complications like cardiac arrest, especially if the inflammation causes lasting damage to the heart's structure and function.
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Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Myocarditis
- Medical condition.image
- Viral myocarditis (1).JPG
- Medical condition.caption
- A microscope image of myocarditis at autopsy in a person with acute onset of heart failure. The black dots are primarily lymphocytes infiltrating the myocardium.
- Medical condition.field
- Infectious disease, cardiology
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Inflammatory cardiomyopathy (infectious)
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Shortness of breath, chest pain, decreased ability to exercise, irregular heartbeat
- Medical condition.complications
- Heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrest
- Medical condition.duration
- Hours to months
- Medical condition.causes
- Usually viral infection, also bacterial infections, certain medications, autoimmune disorders
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Electrocardiogram, blood troponin, heart MRI, heart biopsy
- Medical condition.treatment
- Medications, implantable cardiac defibrillator, heart transplant
- Medical condition.medication
- ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, diuretics, corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin
- Medical condition.prognosis
- Variable
- Medical condition.frequency
- 2.5 million with cardiomyopathy (2015)
- Medical condition.deaths
- 354,000 with cardiomyopathy (2015)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
30,890 papers- Myocarditis.Lancet (London, England) · 2012
- Myocarditis.The New England journal of medicine · 2009
- Viral Myocarditis-Incidence, Diagnosis and Management.Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia · 2020
- Viral Myocarditis.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2024
- [Myocarditis].La Revue de medecine interne · 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Viral myocarditis (1).JPG
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34831
- health specialty
- cardiology
- described by source
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000095
- Commons category
- Myocarditis
- ICD-9-CM
- 429.0
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
Sources (3)
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Article · Italiano
La miocardite è una malattia infiammatoria acquisita che coinvolge il muscolo cardiaco e che riconosce diversi agenti causali, più spesso virus, ma anche altri microrganismi come batteri, funghi e protozoi, malattie autoimmuni (sclerodermia, vasculiti) e sostanze tossiche.
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