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AUTOIMMUNITY REVIEWS
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 811-816Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2017.05.021
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Myocarditis; Autoimmune diseases
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Myocarditis is a major cause of heart disease in young patients and a common precursor of heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy. Some auto-immune and/or auto-inflammatory diseases may be accompanied by myocarditis, such as sarcoidosis, Behget's disease, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, myositis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. However, data concerning myocarditis in such auto-immune and/or auto inflammatory diseases are sparse. New therapeutic strategies should better target the modulation of the immune system, depending on the phase of the disease and the type of underlying auto-immune and/or auto-inflammatory disease. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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