Population
929 autopsy cases with nonspecific myocarditis registered in Japan from 1958 to 1984, with a detailed…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Provides autopsy-based incidence and staging data in Japan; leaves open clinical relevance and requires prospective validation.
Nonspecific myocarditis has an autopsy incidence of 0.15% in Japan and presents with distinct clinicopathological stages ranging from acute inflammation to chronic postmyocarditic cardiomegaly.
Okada et al. (1989) studied this question.
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