Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

• In this position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases an expert consensus group reviews the current knowledge on clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of myocarditis, and proposes new diagnostic criteria for clinically suspected myocarditis and its distinct biopsy-proven pathogenetic forms. The aims are to bridge the gap between clinical and tissue-based diagnosis, to improve management and provide a common reference point for future registries and multicentre randomised controlled trials of aetiology-driven treatment in inflammatory heart muscle disease.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Kardiologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Myocarditis

Cardiomyopathy

Diagnosis

Therapy

IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE

BIOPSY-PROVEN MYOCARDITIS

CHRONIC HEART-FAILURE

CARDIAC TROPONIN-I

LEFT-VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES

GIANT-CELL

MYOCARDITIS

ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSY

VIRAL MYOCARDITIS

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