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.