FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 345:379 August 2, 2001 Number 5 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited PubMed Citation

To the Editor: Enteroviruses are the most common agents of myocarditis and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy. There are still discrepancies in our knowledge of the association of enteroviruses and myocardial disease, partially due to a lack of data on detection of viral antigen on viral culture of tissue.¹ For the treatment of fulminant myocarditis, aggressive hemodynamic support is warranted because of the excellent long-term prognosis of patients.²

A 16-year-old girl was admitted with anterior chest pain of one day's duration. Two weeks earlier, she had had influenza-like symptoms. The patient had a positive troponin T . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Lim, B.-K., Choi, J.-H., Nam, J.-H., Gil, C.-O., Shin, J.-O., Yun, S.-H., Kim, D.-K., Jeon, E.-S. (2006). Virus receptor trap neutralizes coxsackievirus in experimental murine viral myocarditis. Cardiovasc Res 71: 517-526 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• Lee, Y. T., Sung, K., Shin, J.-O., Jeon, E.-S. (2006). Disruption of Dystrophin in Acute Fulminant Coxsackieviral B4 Infection. Circulation 113: e76-e77 [Full Text]  
• Lim, B.-K., Choe, S.-C., Shin, J.-O., Ho, S.-H., Kim, J.-M., Yu, S.-S., Kim, S., Jeon, E.-S. (2002). Local Expression of Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist by Plasmid DNA Improves Mortality and Decreases Myocardial Inflammation in Experimental Coxsackieviral Myocarditis. Circulation 105: 1278-1281 [Abstract] [Full Text]