What´s going on in the body (pathogenesis)

PATHOGENESIS

Now I am going to describe to you, what´ s actually going on in the body during the myocarditis. The heart wall is composed of three layers – the endocardium (the inner heart layer membrane), the myocardium (the heart muscle) a…

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Definition of myocarditis

Definiton

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle (myocardium). Inflammation is to be found either just on a few places of the myocardium (so called nidus) and in the entire heart muscle (so call diffusion inflamm…

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Types of myocarditis

Myocarditis is separated into several forms. Classification of the types of myocarditis is adjusting continuously. Commonly is so called by a clinical-pathological classification, which combines observable course of the patient´s disease with the fin…

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Causes (Etiology)

Myocarditis can be brought by a wide range of infectious and non-infectious causes. Mostly (in up to 95% cases) it is caused by some of virus, less often by bacterium, parasites (mainly in South and Central America) …

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Symptoms

Symptoms are different and individual for each patient with myocarditis. Most of the first symptoms are preceded by previous infectious disease, mostly of the respiratory system or alimentary canal. Symptoms, which are observed by pa…

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