Overview
- Comprehensive overview, covering epidemiology/prognosis, pathology, immunology, diagnosis and treatment strategies
- Prof. Schultheiss is a leading expert in this area
Part of the book series: Progress in Inflammation Research (PIR)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy — clinical management, epidemiology and prognosis
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Animal models of myocarditis — autoimmunity and viral infection; therapeutic interventions
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Alterations of the immune system in human viral and inflammatory cardiomyopathy
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Diagnosis of inflammatory and viral cardiomyopathy
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Treatment strategies in inflammatory cardiomyopathy patients
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About this book
Cardiomyopathy is one of the most frequent causes of heart failure. It is often associated with inadequate heart pumping or other heart function abnormalities. There are many different causes of the disease, e.g. other diseases, alcoholism, high blood pressure, viral infections; therefore many different kinds of cardiomyopathies exist, belonging to five main types of CM: Dilated CM, Hypertrophic CM, Restrictive CM, Right Ventricular CM, Nonclassifiable CM. This volume focuses on inflammatory CM, belonging to the Dilated Cardiomyopathies (DCMi). It covers epidemiology/prognosis, pathology, immunology, diagnosis and treatment strategies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi) - Pathogenesis and Therapy
Editors: Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Michel Noutsias
Series Title: Progress in Inflammation Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8352-7
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8351-0Published: 22 June 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8352-7Published: 30 January 2011
Series ISSN: 1422-7746
Series E-ISSN: 2296-4525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 294
Topics: Immunology, Cardiology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Internal Medicine