How Should We Diagnose Myocarditis, and Is its Recognition Really Clinically Relevant?

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G William Dec. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016.

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. 2016 Apr 19;67(15):1812-1814.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.02.036.

¹ Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: gdec@partners.org.

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Keywords: endomyocardial biopsy; extracellular volume; mapping; myocardial inflammation.

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