Chronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

I. Chronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

1. Overview on Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy/Chronic Myocarditis
H. -P. Schultheiss, U. Kühl

2. Unsolved Medical Issues and New Targets for Further Research in Viral Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
K. U. Knowlton

II. Viruses

3. Frontiers in Viral Diagnostics
M. Pauschinger, A. Kallwellis-Opara

4. Invited for Debate: Is Virus Persistence a Determinant for Disease Progression?
A. Keren

5. Parvovirus B19: The Causative Agent of Dilated Cardiomyopathy or a Harmless Passenger of the Human Myocard?
S. Modrow

6. Parvovirus B19: A New Emerging Pathogenic Agent of Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
C. -T. Bock

7. Role of Hepatitis C Virus in Cardiomyopathies
A. Matsumori

III. Immunity and Autoimmunity

8. Recent Insights into the Role of Host Innate and Acquired Immunity Responses
P. Liu, K. Fuse, G. Chu, Y. Liu, A. Opavsky

9. The Significance of Autoimmunity in Myocarditis
N. R. Rose

10. The Roles of Immunity and Autoimmunity in Chronic Heart Failure
S. Haehling, W. Doehner, S. D. Anker

11. Clinical Implications of Anti-cardiac Immunity in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
A. L. P. Caforio, N. G. Mahon, W. J. McKenna

IV. Cardiac Remodeling

12. Inflammation and Cardiac Remodeling During Viral Myocarditis
S. Heymans

13. Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: There Is a Specific Matrix Destruction in the Course of the Disease
J. A. Towbin

14. Invited for Debate: Is There a Virus-Specific Matrix Destruction in the Course of Disease in Dilated Cardiomyopathy?
F. Waagstein

V. Diagnosis and Treatment

15. New Non-invasive Approaches for the Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
U. Sechtem, H. Mahrholdt, S. Hager, H. Vogelsberg

16. New Therapeutics Targets in Chronic Viral Cardiomyopathy
W. Poller, H. Fechner, U. Kühl, M. Pauschinger, H. -P. Schultheiss

17. Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Histomorphological Diagnosis
F. Calabrese, A. Angelini, E. Carturan, G. Thiene

18. Anti-viral Treatment in Patients with Virus-Induced Cardiomyopathy
U. Kühl, M. Pauschinger, W. Poller, H. -P. Schultheiss

19. Immunosuppressive Treatment of Chronic Non-viral Myocarditis
A. Frustaci, M. Pieroni, C. Chimenti

20. Immunoadsorption in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
S. B. Felix

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Keywords: MEDICAL / Public Health MED078000