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…
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…
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…
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…
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…