Myocarditis is the term used to describe acute or chronic inflammation of the myocardium. For two decades, there has been increasing confrontations concerning the diagnosis, management and clinical outcome of the myocarditis. The cause of myocarditis frequently remains unknown. However, infections, systemic diseases, toxins and drugs have been reported being associated with inflammation of the ...

Abstract Left ventricular myocardial crypts are definined as deep blood–filled invaginations trasversing > 50% of the wall and located predominantly at mid–basal segment inferoseptal or apical segment. To date incidence is 9.1% patients undergoing cardiac CT not associated with intermediate–term major adverse cardiovascular events. However several studies have suggested that presence a m...

human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection has been associated with cardiac disease, including anatomical or functional disturbance to the heart. cardiomyopathy (cmp) is one of these disturbances that have been associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. in this review article, several aspects of potential relationships between hiv infection and cardiomyopathy development have been...

objective: crocinisa saffron constituent with a potent anti-oxidant activity. the present study investigated the effects of crocin and insulin treatments (alone or in combination) on cardiac function and pathology in diabetic rats. materials and methods: diabetes was induced by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of streptozotocin (stz, 50 mg/kg). thereafter, crocin (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg, i.p.), sub...

discussion there are other causes of dilated cardiomyopathies which could be transient like peripartum cardiomyopathy. the development of biventricular mural thrombi is rare, and it mainly increases the risk of embolization in the systemic and pulmonary circulations. case presentation we present two case reports of post-myocardial infarction sequel leading to ischemic cardiomyopathy and peripar...

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background: familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) is caused by mutations in genes encoding cardiac sarcomere proteins. nowadays genetic testing of hcm plays an important role in clinical practice by contributing to the diagnosis, prognosis, and screening of high-risk individuals. the aim of this study was developing a reliable testing strategy for hcm based on linkage analysis and appropri...

takotsubo or stress-induced cardiomyopathy is a cardiomyopathy in which the patient has a sudden onset, reversible left ventricular systolic dysfunction without any significant coronary artery disease. four women, who were at a mean age of 64 years and suffered from chest pain exacerbated by emotional stress, were admitted as cases of acute coronary syndrome and were completely evaluated throug...

AIM Long distance running races are associated with a low risk of life-threatening events much often attributed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. However, retrospective analyses of aetiology lack consistency. METHODS AND RESULTS Incidence and aetiology of life-threatening/fatal events were assessed in long distance races in the prospective Registre des Accidents Cardiaques lors des courses d'En...

AIMS Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces morbidity and mortality in heart failure. However, prediction of the outcome remains difficult. We aimed to investigate for echocardiographic predictors of ventricular arrhythmias and fatal outcome and to explore how myocardial function is changed by biventricular pacing in heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS We prospectively included 170 he...