Population
Patients with histologically proven cardiac inflammation (myocarditis/inflammatory cardiomyopathy)
Design
Other
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B19V testing may aid myocarditis evaluation; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
High B19V viral loads and specific genotypes, potentially reactivated by HHV6 coinfection, may cause endothelial cell-mediated inflammatory cardiomyopathy.
C.–Thomas Bock (2014) studied this question.
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