Viral infections of the heart
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Viral infections of the heart
Edward Arnold, c1993
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Several serious as well as terminal diseases of the heart are caused by viruses. There is also speculation that viruses may contribute to the most common causes of death in the Western world, ischaemic heart disease. Until recently, however, the pathogenesis of viral infections was not fully understood, resulting in a tendancy amongst clinicians to ignore these causes in the explanation of symptoms related to heart disease such as chest pain and cardiac arrhythmias. This book presents the clinician with an authoritative account of the role of viruses in the mechanisms and outlining methods of diagnosis and therapy. The first work to relate current research to the clinical aspects of viral infection of the heart, this publication should prove of interest to both cardiologists and virologists.
Table of Contents
- Characteristics of viruses inducing cardiac disease, G.B. Clements
- epidemiology of viral infections of the heart, D. Reid and N. Grist
- the histopathological features of acute myocarditis, M.E. Billingham
- clinical features of viral infections of the heart, P.J. Richardson and H. Why
- pathogenesis of disease - animal models, S.A. Huber
- experimental studies in viral infections of the heart, A. Matsumori
- pathogenesis of disease - humans, B. Maisch et al
- the role of HIV in cardiac disease, N.A. Boon and A.J. Jacob
- the role of cytomegalovirus in human atherosclerosis, J.L. Melnick
- the laboratory diagnosis of enterovirus-induced heart disease, R. Kandolf and P. Muir
- prospects of treatment and prevention of virally-induced heart disease, W. Al-Nakib.
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