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Hepatitis B virus and myocarditis

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 1984Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Human Pathology, volume 15, pages 481-484 (issn: 0046-8177,

Authors: Azra Habib; Philip C. Ursell; Purnima Sharma; Ricardo Mesa-Tejada; John J. Fenoglio; Jay H. Lefkowitch;

doi: 10.1016/s0046-8177(84)80085-4

pmid: 6373562

Hepatitis B virus and myocarditis

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Abstract

Myocarditis may be a serious extrahepatic complication of hepatitis. In this fatal case of serologically documented hepatitis B viral hepatitis, acute myocarditis was present, with histologic features consistent with a viral pathogenesis. Hepatitis B surface antigen was demonstrated by immunoperoxidase methods in small intramyocardial vessels, suggesting that hepatitis B virus infected the heart. The resulting inflammatory heart disease may have been caused either directly, by virus infecting the myocardium, or indirectly, by an immune-mediated mechanism.

Keywords

Adult, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Male, Myocarditis, Hepatitis B Surface Antigens, Myocardium, Acute Disease, Humans, Hepatitis B

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