Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases.

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Published in Eur Heart J on July 03, 2013

Authors

Alida L P Caforio1, Sabine Pankuweit, Eloisa Arbustini, Cristina Basso, Juan Gimeno-Blanes, Stephan B Felix, Michael Fu, Tiina Heliö, Stephane Heymans, Roland Jahns, Karin Klingel, Ales Linhart, Bernhard Maisch, William McKenna, Jens Mogensen, Yigal M Pinto, Arsen Ristic, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Hubert Seggewiss, Luigi Tavazzi, Gaetano Thiene, Ali Yilmaz, Philippe Charron, Perry M Elliott, European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiological Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy. alida.caforio@unipd.it

Associated clinical trials:

CMR Evaluation of Myocardial Inflammation Persistence After Acute Myocarditis: Prognostic Relevance (MIAMI) | NCT03525639

Ventricular Arrhythmia After Myocarditis in Sportsman (ARYMYS) | NCT03842592

Cardiac Imaging in SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (CISCO-19) | NCT04403607

The Role of Electrocardiograms in Risk Stratification and Analysis of the Characteristics of ST Elevation in Acute Myocarditis: a 2-centre Study | NCT04498494

Myocardial Injury and Quality of Life After COVID-19 | NCT04794062

Acute Myocarditis Registry With Prognostic, Histologic, Immunologic, Biological, Imaging and Clinical Assessment (AMPHIBIA) | NCT04844151

The ORCHESTRATE-Myocarditis Registry | NCT05139329

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