2017-05-22Zeitschriftenartikel
Parvovirus B19-induced vascular damage in the heart is associated with elevated circulating endothelial microparticles
Bachelier, Katrin; Biehl, Susanne; Schwarz, Viktoria; Kindermann, Ingrid; Kandolf, Reinhard; Sauter, Martina; Ukena, Christian; Yilmaz, Ali; Sliwa, Karen; Bock, Thomas; Klingel, Karin; Böhm, Michael
Background: Diagnosis of viral myocarditis is difficult by clinical criteria but facilitated by detection of inflammation and viral genomes in endomyocardial biopsies. Parvovirus B19 (B19V) targets endothelial cells ...