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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-8-5
pubmed:abstractText
Enteroviruses are considered to be the most common agents implicated in myocarditis and cardiomyopathy. Recent studies have suggested persistent enterovirus infection in chronic disease showing the presence of enteroviral RNA in the myocardium. We used gene amplification by PCR which can demonstrate directly the presence of enteroviral sequences in endomyocardial biopsies. The primers were chosen in the 5' non-coding region of the genome representing highly conserved sequences among enteroviruses and therefore allowed the amplification of the majority of enteroviruses. The hybridization of the amplified products was effected with specific general riboprobe derived from 5' non-coding sequences internal of the amplified fragments. The results include 105 patients distributed in 6 groups: 45 idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathies with 66.7%, 17 alcoholic cardiomyopathies with 52.9%, 10 myocarditis with 30%, 5 multifactorial cardiomyopathies with 40%, 5 patients with immunosuppressive therapy with 100%, and 23 control group without viral etiology with 39.1% positive samples. The study suggested a positive link between viral infection and cardiomyopathies, but did not allow a direct relation between enterovirus infection and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy to be established.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0146-6615
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
76-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Biopsy, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Cardiomyopathies, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Child, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Enterovirus, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Enterovirus Infections, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Female, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Immunoglobulin G, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Male, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Nucleic Acid Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:1320101-RNA, Viral
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of enteroviruses in endomyocardial biopsy by molecular approach.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Virologie, CHRU Caen, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't