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Myocarditis evolving in cardiomyopathy: when genetics and offending causes work together
1 Mar 2019
Abstract excerpt
Myocarditis is an infectious–inflammatory disease often superimposed to individual genetic background which could favour or inhibit its progression into a chronic heart muscle disorder (most often dilated cardiomyopathy, rarely arrhythmogenic, or right-sided cardiomyopathy). Post-myocarditis cardiomyopathy is likely caused by a complex interaction between the viral infection and an individual predisposition. Some...
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