What are the predictors of poor outcome in patients with suspected myocarditis?
In patients with suspected myocarditis, clinical severity and immunohistological inflammation, rather than standard histological Dallas criteria or viral genome detection, are predictive of poor outcomes.
For patients with suspected myocarditis, advanced New York Heart Association functional class, immunohistological signs of inflammation, and lack of beta-blocker therapy, but not histology (positive Dallas criteria) or viral genome detection, are related to poor outcome.
Kindermann et al. (Mon,) studied this question.