Ventricular arrhythmias and myocardial inflammation: Long-term follow-up of patients with suspected myocarditis

Inflammatory heart disease is known to be associated with ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and impaired ventricular function at presentation or during follow-up. We aimed to investigate the need for implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) due to ventricular dysfunction and occurrence of VA during long-term follow-up in patients admitted with suspected myocarditis.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - August 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Valerie Pavlicek, Ingrid Kindermann, Jan Wintrich, Felix Mahfoud, Karin Klingel, Michael B öhm, Christian Ukena Source Type: research