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Diagnosis, Risk Stratification and Management of Myocarditis

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Acute Coronary Syndrome

It's very rare, isn't it, that we ever use antiviral drugs in myocarditis certainly in my experience. Yes, they never fully got established. They were researching the past but never really made it through. And myocarditis has many different presentations. It often presents like acute coronary syndrome with chest pain, dyspnea. We also undescribed it once as gripping heart syndrome because the patients often describe it as if somebody would hold their heart in their hand and then rest together. So that's how it feels for them. But overall, the clinical course is mild in the majority. In 80 to 90% of cases we see they have only mild symptoms.

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