New Strategies for the Treatment of
Coxsackievirus-Induced Myocarditis

By Elizaveta Padalko
March 2005
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058674495
160 pages, Illustrated, 6 ¼" x 9 ½"
$99.50 Paper Original

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This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Coxsackieviruses B (CBV) are considered to be the principal etiological agent of viral myocarditis. In analogy to many other viral illnesses, both direct viral injury as well as the immune response plays an important role in the pathogenesis of viral heart disease. At the present moment not a single specific therapeutic agent is available for the treatment of CVB-induced myocarditis. The main goal of this work was to explore new strategies for the treatment of viral myocarditis based on the current scientific knowledge about the pathogenesis of this disease.



Immunology
Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, No. 333

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