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My story
I had never heard about myocarditis and I had had no idea that this disease exists until 05/2014. I felt good even in the afternoon. However, in the evening I had started to feel really exhausted. In the middle of the night, fever over 39 ºC (102 ºF)…
Treatment with interferon beta
The management of myocarditis. European Heart Journal. 2011, -(32), 2616–2625.
Interferons, including interferon beta, are a part of anti-viral and anti-cancer immunity. They suppress the reproduction of the virus and cause cell death in …
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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…
Life with myocarditis
The crucial part of myocarditis treatment and even of follow-up convalescence is a strict rest regime and considerable restriction of physical activities. The time of the restriction and activities that may be done by a patient after the myocarditis …
Other treatment possibilities
The patient´s state of health, mainly in fulminant and giant cell myocarditis, may be sometimes very severe and pharmacological treatment itself is not sufficient in some situations. In such cases, physicians get provide mechanical support of…
Immunological treatment
IMMUNOLOGICAL TREATMENT
This part of the treatment of myocarditis is already used in clinical practise, but it is still being researched. The mechanisms of the effect of these substances, which influence the activity of the…
Treatment with antivirotics and antibiotics
Antibiotics are indicated for myocarditis, when the cause of the disease is a bacterium. Very frequently it is Borrelia burgdorferi which is transferred by ticks and causes Lyme disease. Treatment is under way mostly for seve…
Heart failure treatment
Myocarditis may in some cases have a dramatic course and signs of heart failure and life-threatening arrhythmias can appear. During heart failure, the heart function gets worse – heart contractility is worse than normal. The conseque…
Treatment possibilities
Knowledges of myocarditis, its diagnosis and treatment have undergone an enormous evaluation in recent years. However, physicians still have limited knowledges and possibilities in association with this disease, its course, diagnosis…
Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB)
Endomyocardial biopsy is an examination, when “tongs” are inserted into the patient´s heart through the vessel system. They are inserted into the right or left heart ventricle and then four or five very little pieces of heart tissue are collected….
Lab testing
Lab testing is in the case of myocarditis focused on the detection of biomarkers of heart muscle damage and the intensity of any inflammatory processes. Laboratory results along with imaging methods provide valuable information for d…
X-Ray
X-ray is maybe the oldest and best known imaging method in medicine. The essence of this examination is based on the fact that a certain part of patient´s body is “lit up” by X-ray. X-ray is absorbed less by tender tissues (like for example the lungs…
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI)
This is an imaging method, which uses magnetic characteristics of an atom´s nucleus, specifically protons (positively charged parts of the atom´s nucleus). Normally, the axes of these protons are turned in different directions. Durin…
Echocardiography (ECHO)
ECHO is, together with ECG, one of the basic examinations in cardiology. The characteristics of ultrasound (sound of very high frequency over 20 000 Hz, which is not detected by human ears) are used in this method. During an ECHO exa…
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
An electrocardiograph is a device used for detecting changes of electrical potential (“electrical activity”) caused by heart activity. The record of these changes is called an electrocardiogram (ECG). The changes of heart electrical …
Physical examination
A physical examination is performed by a physician immediately after when a patient arrives at the doctor´s office. It could have different results at myocarditis. It is not unusual that the results are normal or atypical. Sometimes myocarditis can p…
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…
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…
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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About project
Dear visitors,
Welcome to the website www.myokarditida.cz,
My name is Jan Habásko and I am the founder and administrator of this web handbook designed for patients with diagnosis of myocarditis and their…
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…