title: [The diagnostic value of virus serology in patients with non-ischemic systolic heart failure and parvovirus B19 infection].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We determined retrospective analysis of the diagnostic value of virus serology in patients with non-ischemic systolic heart failure and parvovirus B19 infection.
  
  
  METHODS
  Virus serology and endomyocardial biopsy were performed in 31 patients with non-ischemic systolic heart failure hospitalized from 2001 to 2006 in our clinic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The serum specimens from 31 patients were tested for IgM and IgG antibody against parvovirus B19. IgM antibodies were identified in 3 patients and IgG antibodies were identified in 23 patients. All of the patients underwent endomyocardial biopsy which revealed chronic active myocarditis in 10 patients (32.4%), chronic persistent myocarditis in 14 patients (45.1%) and no myocarditis in 7 patients (22.5%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Virus serology has no relevance for the diagnosis of non-ischemic systolic heart failure caused by parvovirus B19 infection. The result of serological tests are positive more frequently than the biopsy specimens results.
authors: II Katedra i Oddział Kliniczny Kardiologii Wydziału Lekarskiego z Oddziałem Lekarsko-Dentystycznym w Zabrzu, SUM.
authors: Ewa
authors: E
authors: Nowalany-Kozielska
authors: Monika
authors: M
authors: Kozieł
authors: Dorota
authors: D
authors: Domal-Kwiatkowska
authors: Szymon
authors: S
authors: Dworniczak
authors: Romuald
authors: R
authors: Wojnicz
authors: Celina
authors: C
authors: Wojciechowska
authors: Wojciech
authors: W
authors: Jachec
authors: Damian
authors: D
authors: Kawecki
authors: Sławomir
authors: S
authors: Smolik
authors: Ludmiła
authors: L
authors: Weglarz
authors: Jerzy
authors: J
authors: Kozielski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D001706:Biopsy; D016731:Erythema Infectiosum / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D054143:Heart Failure, Systolic / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D016732:Parvovirus B19, Human / Q000276:immunology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012698:Serologic Tests
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M