Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi)

1. Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of pericarditis
Bernhard Maisch, Konstantinos Karatolios, Sabine Pankuweit, Arsen Ristic

2. Epidemiology and Prognosis of Myocarditis and dilated Cardiomyopathy: Predictive Value of Clinical Parameters and Biopsy Findings
G. William Dec

3. Autoimmune Murine Myocarditis and Immunomodulatory Interventions
Christoph Berger, Urs Eriksson

4. Coxsackievirus-induced murine myocarditis and immunomodulatory interventions
Michel Noutsias, Peter Liu

5. Myocardial Proteases and Matrix Remodeling in Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
Susanne Rutschow, Michel Noutsias, Matthias Pauschinger

6. Molecular genetics of cardiomyopathies and myocarditis
Jeffrey A. Towbin, Matteo Vatta

7. Pathogenic relevance of autoantibodies in dilated cardiomyopathy
Roland Jahns, Valérie Boivin, Georg Ertl, Martin J. Lohse

8. The role of cytokines in inflammation-induced cardiomyopathy: Pathogenesis and therapeutic implications
Jesus G. Vallejo, Douglas L. Mann

9. Histology and immunohistology of myocarditis
Annalisa Angelini, Fiorella Calabrese, Gaetano Thiene

10. Immunohistological diagnosis of inflammatory cardiomyopathy and diagnosis of cardiotropic viral infections
Michel Noutsias, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Uwe Kühl

11. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: A non-invasive approach for the detection of myocardial inflammation — Potentials and limitations
Matthias Gutberlet

12. Clinical management of acute myocarditis and cardiomyopathy
Kenneth L. Baughman

13. Immunosuppressive treatment of inflammatory cardiomyopathy patients
Andrea Frustaci, Cristina Chimenti

14. Antiviral interferon-β treatment in patients with chronic viral cardiomyopathy
Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Michel Noutsias, Uwe Kühl

15. Immunoadsorption in dilated cardiomyopathy patients
Stephan B. Felix, Alexander Staudt

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Immunology, Cardiology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Internal Medicine