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SUBMITTER: Bruestle K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083821 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current cardiology reports 20200320 5
<h4>Purpose of review</h4>Over the last decade, myocarditis has been increasingly recognized as common cause of sudden cardiac death in young adults and heart failure overall. The purpose of this review is to discuss hypothesis of development of non-infectious myocarditis, to provide a description of the immunopathogenesis and the most common mechanisms of autoimmunity in myocarditis, and to provide an update on therapeutic options.<h4>Recent findings</h4>A new entity of myocarditis is immune ch ...[more]