Restrictive cardiomyopathy as a late sequel of influenza A2 virus myocarditis

Schmaltz, A.A.; Seitz, K.H.; Schenck, W.; Both, A.; Kraus, B.

Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 75(10): 605-608

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-5860
PMID: 3788252
Document Number: 272949
A clinically acute myocarditis with an increase of the influenza A2-virus titer marks the beginning of a ten year history leading to a restrictive cardiomyopathy, complicated by an exudative enteropathy. Two serial endomyocardial biopsies reveal an increasing interstitial fibrosis. Virus myocarditis as a cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy, which corresponds to the old term "myocardial fibrosis", is discussed.

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