Abstract
Virological examination of 385 patients with suspected heart disease and 26 with Bornholm disease over a period of 6 years suggested that Coxsackie group B virus infections were associated with at least half the cases of acute myocarditis and one third of the cases of acute non-bacterial pericarditis. Complement-fixation tests revealed only a few cardiac illnesses associated with other infections (influenza and Mycoplasma pneumoniae). No evidence of infection was found in chronic cardiac disease.
Full text
PDF
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- Abelmann W. H. Viral myocarditis and its sequelae. Annu Rev Med. 1973;24:145–152. doi: 10.1146/annurev.me.24.020173.001045. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Bell E. J., Grist N. R. Further studies of enterovirus infections in cardiac disease and pleurodynia. Scand J Infect Dis. 1970;2(1):1–6. doi: 10.3109/inf.1970.2.issue-1.01. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Burch G. E., Colcolough H. L. Progressive Coxsackie viral pancarditis and nephritis. Ann Intern Med. 1969 Nov;71(5):963–970. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-71-5-963. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Burch G. E., Sun S. C., Colcolough H. L., Sohal R. S., DePasquale N. P. Coxsackie B viral myocarditis and valvulitis identified in routine autopsy specimens by immunofluorescent techniques. Am Heart J. 1967 Jul;74(1):13–23. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(67)90035-x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Grist N. R. Viruses and myocarditis. Postgrad Med J. 1972 Dec;48(566):750–753. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.48.566.750. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Koontz C. H., Ray C. G. The role of Coxsackie group B virus infections in sporadic myopericarditis. Am Heart J. 1971 Dec;82(6):750–758. doi: 10.1016/0002-8703(71)90195-5. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Lerner A. M., Wilson F. M. Virus myocardiopathy. Prog Med Virol. 1973;15:63–91. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Obeyesekere I., Hermon Y. Myocarditis and cardiomyopathy after arbovirus infections (dengue and chikungunya fever). Br Heart J. 1972 Aug;34(8):821–827. doi: 10.1136/hrt.34.8.821. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]