title: [An unusual cause of chest pain in].
abstract: Myocarditis seems to be mostly caused by a viral infection or more rarely by a pharmacological hypersensitivity or by radiations exposure. Nevertheless, it is not so easy to know the ethiopathogenesis of the myocarditis, because mostly it is impossible to determine the infectious agent that causes the pathology even if it is isolated. The diagnosis could often remain uncertain, so a suspect of myocarditis has to be opportunely confirmed by specific serological and diagnostic investigations, in order to avoid the appearance of a dilated cardiomyopathy which is one of its principal sequences.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Emergenza Accettazione Azienda Policlinico Umberto I, Università Sapienza, Roma, Italia. marianna.suppa@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suppa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coppola
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Migliozzi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Magnanelli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Negri
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cavicchi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Contu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Petroni
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Colzi
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mazzocchitti
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Scarpellini
mesh_terms: D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000096:biosynthesis; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003384:Coxsackievirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D003587:Cytomegalovirus / Q000276:immunology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D029822:Enterovirus B, Human / Q000276:immunology; D020031:Epstein-Barr Virus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D001323:Autoantibodies; D016207:Cytokines