BC42.1
Infectious myocarditis
Miocardite infecciosa
CategoryDefinition
Infectious myocarditis (infectious inflammatory cardiomyopathy) is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to discrete infectious external antigens such as a virus, bacteria or parasite.
Exclusions
- Acute rheumatic myocarditis
- Myoendocarditis
- Acute or subacute infectious endocarditis
Index Terms
Infectious myocarditisinfectious inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathyinfection myocarditisinfectious inflammatory cardiomyopathyBacterial myocarditisbacterial interstitial myocarditismyocarditis due to infectious agentbacterial old myocarditisbacterial fibroid myocarditisbacterial inflammatory cardiomyopathyAcute bacterial myocarditisChronic bacterial myocarditisFungal myocarditisfungal inflammatory cardiomyopathyAspergillus myocarditisAspergillus inflammatory cardiomyopathyParasitic myocarditisparasitic dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyparasitic inflammatory cardiomyopathyHelminthic myocarditishelminthic inflammatory cardiomyopathyProtozoal myocarditisprotozoal dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyprotozoal inflammatory cardiomyopathyRickettsial myocarditisrickettsial dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyrickettsial inflammatory cardiomyopathySpirochaetal myocarditisspirochetal dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyspirochetal inflammatory cardiomyopathyViral myocarditisviral dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyviral inflammatory cardiomyopathySeptic myocarditisMyocardial abscessheart abscess NOS