Myocarditis: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Causes and Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2296
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heart failure; cardiac function; echocardiography; chronic heart failure; cardiomyopathies; acute heart failure; cardiac echocardiography; cardiovascular physiology; cardiac catheterization; pulmonary hypertension
Interests: heart failure; pulmonary arterial hypertension; chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; heart catheterization; cardiomyopathies; heart transplantation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The incidence of myocarditis has been increasing during the last few decades and, in 2017, its reported worldwide prevalence was 1.8 million cases. Myocarditis is a challenging diagnosis due to symptom polymorphism, heterogeneity in causes and mimicking of other cardiac diseases. The causes of myocarditis are diverse and include viral or bacterial infections, autoimmune disorders and drug and toxin reactions.
The clinical course of myocarditis is quite unforeseeable; most of the patients who present with mild symptoms and minimal systolic dysfunction recover spontaneously, while up 30% of the cases with more severe symptoms progress towards chronic dysfunction, dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Therefore, there is room for improvement in the clinical outcomes via identification of new molecular pathways, risk stratification, as well as novel therapeutic and preventive strategies.
To obtain a more complete understanding of the pathophysiology of myocarditis, this Special Issue on “Myocarditis: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Causes and Management” is focused on both clinical science as well as basic and translational research in this field. Original and up-to-date review articles are sought regarding all ascpects from molecular mechanisms to clinical managment.
The main goal of this Special Issue is to bring together the latest research and clinical practice guidelines on myocarditis, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on this important condition.
Dr. Entela Bollano
Dr. Clara Hjalmarsson
Dr. Emanuele Bobbio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heart failure
- cardiomyopathies
- myocarditis
- heart transplantation
- cardiac sarcoidosis
- giant-cell myocarditis
- inflammatory heart disease
- inflammation
