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Humana Press Myocarditis From Bench to Bedside 1st Editon 2010 Softbound by Jr. Cooper
Leslie T. Cooper, Jr., MD, and a panel of leading clinical and scientific experts comprehensively review both advances in basic scientific understanding and current clinical knowledge of inflammatory heart disease. On the clinical side they discuss the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of nonspecific and specific myocarditis in separate chapters devoted to such major idiopathic clinical entities as cardiac sarcoidosis, giant cell myocarditis, eosinophilic myocarditis, Chagas disease, rheumatic fever, and human immunodeficiency virus-related cardiomyopathy. Research articles complete the picture with discussions of the role of apoptosis in viral myocarditis, rat and mouse models of autoimmune giant cell and lymphocytic myocarditis, and the latest available data on enteroviral proteases and cardiomyopathy. 1. Introduction and Historical Perspective on Experimental Myocarditis.- 2. The Primary Viruses of Myocarditis.- 3. Cellular Autoimmunity in Myocarditis.- 4. Humoral Immune Response in Viral Myocarditis.- 5. Cytokines in Experimental Myocarditis.- 6. Nitric Oxide Signaling in Myocarditis.- 7. Life and Death Signaling Pathways in CVB3-Induced Myocarditis.- 8. Animal Models of Autoimmune Myocarditis.- 9. Progression of Myocarditis to Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Role of the Adrenergic System and Myocardial Catecholamines.- 10. Pathogenesis of Enteroviral Cardiomyopathy: Interaction of Viral Proteins With Infected Myocytes.- 11. Introduction to Clinical Myocarditis.- 12. Use of Cardiac Biomarkers for Detection of Myocarditis.- 13. Molecular Biologic Detection of Virus Infection in Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- 14. Pathology of Human Myocarditis.- 15. Endomyocardial Biopsy in Myocarditis.- 16. Treatment of Lymphocytic Myocarditis.- 17. Idiopathic Giant Cell Myocarditis.- 18. Cardiac Sarcoidosis.- 19. The Eosinophil in Cardiac Disease.- 20. Chagas Heart Disease.- 21. Cardiac Involvement in Acute Rheumatic Fever.- 22. Myocarditis Associated With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.- 23. Childhood Myocarditis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- 24. Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.