心肌炎和扩张型心肌病患者丙型肝炎病毒抗体及RNA的低流行率

Low prevalence of hepatitis C virus antibodies and RNA in patients with myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy.

作者信息

Grumbach I M, Heermann K, Figulla H R

机构信息

Department of Cardiology, Division of Internal Medicine, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

出版信息

Cardiology. 1998 Oct;90(2):75-8. doi: 10.1159/000006822.

DOI:10.1159/000006822

PMID:9778541

Abstract

We investigated the prevalence of hepatitis C virus in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and myocarditis in comparison to a control group of patients suffering from noninflammatory cardiac diseases such as aortic stenosis. In contrast to the results of previous studies on small numbers of patients, no significant difference in the prevalence of hepatitis C infections was observed. Our data suggest that HCV is not an important causal agent for myocarditis and DCM.

摘要

我们调查了扩张型心肌病（DCM）和心肌炎患者中丙型肝炎病毒的流行情况，并与患有非炎性心脏病（如主动脉狭窄）的对照组患者进行了比较。与先前对少数患者的研究结果相反，未观察到丙型肝炎感染流行率的显著差异。我们的数据表明，HCV不是心肌炎和DCM的重要致病因素。