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Edited by J.E. Banatvala. 257 pp., illustrated. London, Edward Arnold, 1993. $85. ISBN 0-340-55737-0.

This small but relatively comprehensive book summarizes the relation between viruses and the cardiovascular system. It is ambitious in scope and includes chapters on virology, epidemiology, pathology, animal models, the clinical spectrum of human cardiovascular diseases possibly related to viral infection, experimental diagnostic methods, experimental therapies, and transplantation. The association between viruses and clinically important heart disease is suggested throughout the book. But since the book concentrates largely on symptomatic myocarditis, the best-characterized type of viral heart disease, one is left feeling frustrated that our understanding of this field is still so limited. This book implicitly or directly raises more . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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