Purpose: The treatment options for viral myocarditis caused by coxsackievirus B are summarized. Summary: Myocarditis is a common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. The most common causes of infectious ...

A new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has discovered the underlying cause of gender ...

New ESC Guidelines to improve the diagnosis and care of patients with myocarditis and pericarditis have been published at ESC Congress 2025 and also appear in the European Heart Journal. This is the ...

Immune checkpoints are a part of the immune system that prevents the body’s immune response from destroying healthy cells. They are proteins on the surface of immune T cells that function by binding ...

Recommendations in the new ESC guidelines are largely consistent with those of the 2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert consensus decision pathway on managing myocarditis, and a 2025 joint ...

SAN DIEGO – Patients who developed myocarditis within the first month of receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy were more likely to die of myocarditis, and myocarditis-specific fatality was ...

The term myocarditis describes inflammatory disorders of the heart muscle caused by different infectious and non-infectious factors. The pathogenesis of this condition is complex and includes direct ...

Myocarditis in children is a rare yet challenging condition to treat. Diagnosis and treatment includes multiple options, and many cases of myocarditis resolve on their own, according to a new ...

A 67-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with severe sudden-onset chest pain 2 days after receiving the 12th cycle of PD-L1 inhibitor (48 weeks after starting ICI) for the treatment ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel is set to meet Wednesday to discuss reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in some COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients. Leading up to ...

A new preclinical study has discovered the underlying cause of gender differences in immunotherapy-associated myocarditis after immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. Their findings point to ...