The Diagnosis and Evaluation of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

viral myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy,9 a major cause of congestive heart failure in western countries. Despite numerous published reports on this disease, the natural history of acute myocardi- tis is still poorly understood, despite the devel-opment of immunological and molecular tools for investigating viral diseases which have improved our understanding of their long term course ... ................
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