Leslie T. Cooper, Jr., MD, and a panel of leading clinical and scientific experts comprehensively review both advances in basic scientific understanding and current clinical knowledge of inflammatory heart disease. On the clinical side they discuss the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of nonspecific and specific myocarditis in separate chapters devoted to such major idiopathic clinical entities as cardiac sarcoidosis, giant cell myocarditis, eosinophilic myocarditis, Chagas disease, rheumatic fever, and human immunodeficiency virus-related cardiomyopathy. Research articles complete the picture with discussions of the role of apoptosis in viral myocarditis, rat and mouse models of autoimmune giant cell and lymphocytic myocarditis, and the latest available data on enteroviral proteases and cardiomyopathy.
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Introduction and Historical Perspective on Experimental Myocarditis Charles J. Gauntt The Primary Viruses of Myocarditis Kyung-Soo Kim, Katja Hofling, Steven D. Carson, Nora M. Chapman, and Steven Tracy Cellular Autoimmunity in Myocarditis Sally A. Huber Humoral Immune Response in Viral Myocarditis Bernhard Maisch and Arsen D. Ristic Cytokines in Experimental Myocarditis Akira Matsumori Nitric Oxide Signaling in Myocarditis Joshua M. Hare and Charles J. Lowenstein Life and Death Signaling Pathways in CVB3-Induced Myocarditis Bobby Yanagawa, Mitra Esfandiarei, Chris Carthy, Paul Cheung, Honglin Luo, David Granville, Decheng Yang, Jonathan Choy, Amy Lui, Darya Dabiri, Janet E. Wilson, Aikun Wang, Mary Zhang, Simon Sinn, Bruce M. McManus, Kevin Wei, Ismail Laher Animal Models of Autoimmune Myocarditis Makoto Kodama, Yuji Okura, Yoshifusa Aizawa, and Tohru Izumi Progression of Myocarditis to Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Role of the Adrenergic System and Myocardial Catecholamines Petar M. Seferovic, Arsen D. Ristic, and Ruzica Maksimovic Pathogenesis of Enteroviral Cardiomyopathy: Interaction of Viral Proteins With Infected Myocytes Dingding Xiong, Cornel Badorff, and Kirk U. Knowlton Introduction to Clinical Myocarditis G. William Dec Use of Cardiac Biomarkers for Detection of Myocarditis Allan S. Jaffe Molecular Biologic Detection of Virus Infection in Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy Karin Klingel Pathology of Human Myocarditis Gerald J. Berry and Kristen A. Atkins Endomyocardial Biopsy in Myocarditis Joseph G. Murphy, and Robert P. Frantz Treatment of Lymphocytic Myocarditis Jay W. Mason Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis Leslie T. Cooper, Jr. Cardiac Sarcoidosis Leslie T. Cooper,Jr. The Eosinophil in Cardiac Disease Lambert A. Wu, Leslie T. Cooper, Jr., Gail M. Kephart, and Gerald J. Gleich Chagas Heart Disease James M. Hagar and Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola Cardiac Involvement in Acute Rheumatic Fever Jagat Narula, Ragavendra Baliga, Navneet Narula, Prem Chopra, and Y. Chandrashekhar Myocarditis Associated With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Lyle J. Olson Childhood Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy Neil E. Bowles and Jeffrey A. Towbin Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Joseph G. Murphy Index
