Catalog
Myocarditis
Link to WHO Definition
Myocarditis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1018829714
Myocarditis (inflammatory cardiomyopathy) is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to either discrete infectious external antigens such as viruses, bacteria, fungal or parasites; non-infectious external antigens such as hypersensitivity to drugs; or internal non-infectious triggers such as autoimmune or hypersensitive activation against self-antigens.