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Does red wine improve symptoms and prevent recurrence in patients with myocarditis?
Does red wine improve symptoms and prevent recurrence in patients with myocarditis?
This paper proposes a hypothesis that the bioactive properties of red wine could be beneficial in the treatment of myocarditis.
Red wine should not be recommended for myocarditis; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective trials.
Myocarditis is one of the most commonly cardiovascular diseases in clinical practice, but the treatment is always limited at present. Considering the multifactorial etiology of myocarditis, a novel therapeutic agent with multi-bioactivties should be presented. Red wine has been recognized as a favorable natural medicine against a large number of pathologic conditions. Recent results indicate that red wine could effectively decrease inflammatory factors secretion, reduce the migration of neutrophils, antagonize oxidation, and regulate immunity. By these bioactivities of anti-inflammation, anti-oxidation, and immunomodulation, red wine may be an effective therapeutic candidate to manage the symptoms and prevent the recurrence of myocarditis.
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