Andreas C Petropoulos
Azerbaijan State Medical University, Azerbaijan
Title: Common viral infections. Can they cause acute myocarditis? How can we achieve an early diagnosis and an initial treatment?
Biography
Biography: Andreas C Petropoulos
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to remind to general pediatricians the risk of viral myocarditis as a part of a common viral infection. To explain the clinical futures, the diagnostic algorithm and the available treatments in primary and in hospital care Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of heart muscle and the pericardium. It is an important cause of dilated cardiomyopathy worldwide. Viral infections are the commonest cause of myocarditis. The spectrum of viruses known to cause myocarditis has changed in the past 2decades. Several new diagnostic methods, such as cardiac MRI, are useful for diagnosing myocarditis. Endomyocardial biopsy may be used for patients with acute dilated cardiomyopathy associated with hemodynamic compromise, those with life-threatening arrhythmia, and those whose condition does not respond to conventional supportive therapy, to differentiate dilated cardiomyopathy from acute myocarditis. Important prognostic variables include the degree of LV and RV dysfunction, heart block, and specific histopathological forms of myocarditis. We review diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of viral myocarditis