Chronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schultheiss, H. -P (Editor), Kapp, J. -F (Editor), Grötzbach, G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
Series:Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop, 55
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
  • Overview on Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy/Chronic Myocarditis
  • Unsolved Medical Issues and New Targets for Further Research in Viral Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Viruses
  • Frontiers in Viral Diagnostics
  • Invited for Debate: Is Virus Persistence a Determinant for Disease Progression?
  • Parvovirus B19: The Causative Agent of Dilated Cardiomyopathy or a Harmless Passenger of the Human Myocard?
  • Parvovirus B19: A New Emerging Pathogenic Agent of Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
  • Role of Hepatitis C Virus in Cardiomyopathies
  • Immunity and Autoimmunity
  • Recent Insights into the Role of Host Innate and Acquired Immunity Responses
  • The Significance of Autoimmunity in Myocarditis
  • The Roles of Immunity and Autoimmunity in Chronic Heart Failure
  • Clinical Implications of Anti-cardiac Immunity in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiac Remodeling
  • Inflammation and Cardiac Remodeling During Viral Myocarditis
  • Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: There Is a Specific Matrix Destruction in the Course of the Disease
  • Invited for Debate: Is There a Virus-Specific Matrix Destruction in the Course of Disease in Dilated Cardiomyopathy?
  • Diagnosis and Treatment
  • New Non-invasive Approaches for the Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • New Therapeutics Targets in Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy
  • Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Histomorphological Diagnosis
  • Anti-viral Treatment in Patients with Virus-Induced Cardiomyopathy
  • Immunosuppressive Treatment of Chronic Non-viral Myocarditis
  • Immunoadsorption in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.