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Management of fulminant myocarditis: a diagnosis in search of its etiology but with therapeutic options.
Current heart failure reports - 1 Jun 2014
Maisch Bernhard, Ruppert Volker, Pankuweit Sabine
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Fulminant myocarditis is a clinical syndrome with signs of acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, or life-threating rhythm disturbances in the context of suspected myocarditis. It is not an etiological diagnosis, but may have different underlying causes and pathogenetic processes - viral, bacterial, toxic, and autoreactive. Clinical management of the disease entity at the acute stage involves hemodynamic...
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