Clinical Characteristics and Mechanisms of Acute Myocarditis

Circ Res. 2024 Jul 5;135(2):397-411. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.324674. Epub 2024 Jul 4.

Stephane Heymans^{1

2}, Sophie Van Linthout^{3

4}, Sarah Mignon Kraus^{5

6}, Leslie T Cooper⁷, Ntobeko A B Ntusi^{5

6

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¹ Centre for Heart Failure Research, Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands (S.H.).
² Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium (S.H.).
³ Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (S.V.L.).
⁴ German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Berlin, Germany (S.V.L.).
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa (S.M.K., N.A.B.N.).
⁶ South African Medical Research Council Extramural Unit on Intersection of Noncommunicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, South Africa (S.M.K., N.A.B.N.).
⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (L.T.C.).
⁸ Cape Heart Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa (N.A.B.N.).
⁹ ARUA/Guild Cluster of Research Excellence on Noncommunicable Diseases and Associated Multiborbidity, South Africa (N.A.B.N.).

Abstract

URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT05335928.

Keywords: biopsy; heart failure; immunity; myocarditis; virus diseases.