[Myocarditis in childhood: results of a decade's research].

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The research of the last decade gave new insights in the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis. The virus infection of the myocardium may be controlled by the infiltrating inflammatory cells and heal with more or less scarring. An autoimmune mediated chronic inflammation is observed as well as the persistence of virus genoms, which causes with low replication rate again chronic inflammation. The immunohistochemical...

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