TABLE 3.
Number of screened samples for microRNA analysis sorted by diagnosis
| Diagnosis by endomyocardial biopsy | Number of serum samples | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With inflammation | Without inflammation | With virus | Without virus | Total | ||
| Inflammatory myocardial disease patients | Myocarditis | 29 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 29 |
| DCM with inflammation (DCMi) | 22 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 22 | |
| Borderline myocarditis | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Virally and/or inflammatory myocardial disease patients | Adenovirus (ADV) | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| Enterovirus (Coxsackie virus) | 21 | 60 | 81 | 0 | 81 | |
| Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV6) | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 12 | |
| Parvovirus B19 (B19V) | 10 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 23 | |
| Total | 184 | |||||
| Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 25 | |
| Healthy blood donors | 0 | 25 | 0 | 25 | 25 | |