May 21, 2014Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
Prognosis of myopericarditis as determined from previously published reports
Population
389 patients with myopericarditis from 8 major clinical series, mean age 31.7 years, men-to-women ratio 4.0.
Design
Systematic_review
Follow-up
mean 31 months
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports counseling on excellent long-term prognosis in myopericarditis; confirms troponin elevation is not prognostic in most cases.
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Population
389 patients with myopericarditis from 8 major clinical series, mean age 31.7 years, men-to-women ratio 4.0.
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Outcome
Prognosis including residual left-ventricular dysfunction, recurrences, and mortalityhard clinical
Myopericarditis has a good overall prognosis, and troponin elevation in this setting does not predict an adverse outcome in most cases.
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Imazio et al. (2014) studied this question.