Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Cardiomyopathies
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Hepatitis C virus infection and cardiomyopathies.
Cardiomyopathies may present as idiopathic dilated, hypertrophic, or restrictive disease, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), and various other distinct disorders of the heart muscle.1 They constitute a heterogeneous group of myocardial diseases of multifactorial etiologies, including genetic anomalies and acquired immune factors, such as viral infections. The myocardium may...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/01.res.0000156077.54903.67