| Literature DB >> 10904839 |
B Maisch1, I Portig, A Ristic, G Hufnagel, S Pankuweit.
Abstract
This article reviews the current state of consensus reached for the diagnosis of myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy on the basis of conventional histopathological and immunohistochemical methods for inflammatory infiltrates in addition to molecular biological methods for persistence of viral genome in endomyocardial biopsies. Additionally, a brief overview is presented stating the current knowledge on effector mechanisms of the immune system in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10904839 DOI: 10.1007/s000590050007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Herz ISSN: 0340-9937 Impact factor: 1.443