Myocarditis is inflammation of the myocardium, often viral (coxsackievirus, COVID-19). Ranges from mild (chest pain + troponin elevation) to fulminant heart failure.
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Cardiomyopathy is the name for diseases of the heart muscle. These diseases enlarge your heart muscle or make it thicker and more rigid than normal. In rare cases, scar tissue replaces the muscle tissue.Some people live long, healthy lives with cardiomyopathy. Some people don't even realize they have it. In others, however, it can make the heart less able to pump blood through the body. This can cause serious compli…
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This regulation defines the purpose, the operational processes, and the organization of the registry BEAT-SHOCK (Basel Evaluation of Acute Therapy in cardiogenic SHOCK). It describes the requirements for collecting, storing, processing, ma…
Two-parallel groups randomized, single-blinded, multi-center phase III controlled trial in patients with chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy to assess the efficacy of colchicine and associated prospective registry to assess the prognostic…
Non-ischemic cardiomyopathies (NICM) represent a heterogeneous group of pathologies characterized by absence of obstructive disease of the epicardial coronary vessels and distinct structural and functional changes of the myocardium. The ma…
Prospective, randomized, multicenter, open-label clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 3-week ibuprofen tapering regimen compared to conventional analgesic treatment (acetaminophen) in patients with acute myocarditis and…
The goal of this clinical trial is to demonstrate the efficacy of pulsed intravenous methylprednisolone in a single-blind randomized controlled trial versus standard therapy in patients with acute myocarditis and a mildly reduced LVEF. The…
This is a phase III, multi-center international, single blind randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of pulsed intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone versus standard therapy on top of maximal support in patients with Acute myocardit…
The primary aim is to test whether abatacept, as compared to placebo, is associated with a reduction in major adverse cardiac events (MACE) among participants hospitalized with myocarditis secondary to an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI).…
Myocarditis is a complex inflammatory disease, usually occurring secondary to viral infections, autoimmune processes or toxic agents. Clinical presentations are multiple, including chest-pain, heart failure and a broad spectrum of arrhythm…
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