Does immunosuppressive therapy improve ventricular function or reduce mortality in patients with myocarditis?
Routine treatment of myocarditis with immunosuppressive drugs is not supported, as it does not provide additional benefit for ventricular function.
Our results do not support routine treatment of myocarditis with immunosuppressive drugs. Ventricular function improved regardless of whether patients received immunosuppressive therapy, but long-term mortality was high. Patients with a vigorous inflammatory response had less severe disease.
Mason et al. (1995) studied this question.