Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Pages: 514-519

Journal: Rechtsmedizin

Volume number: 26

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0937-9819

eISSN: 1434-5196

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-016-0111-4

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
The diagnosis of myocarditis in infants requires microscopic experience and often a minimum number of tissue samples and sections taken from the myocardium. Depending on the chronology of a myocarditis, immunohistochemical methods can be helpful to support the suspicion of myocarditis or even confirm it, if staining procedures have been correctly carried out. The so-called Dallas criteria are not mandatory to diagnose myocarditis; however, they make the diagnosis possible even for less experienced investigators. Focal inflammatory infiltration without detection of the viral genome is indicative of post-viral (autoimmune)myocarditis.

Harvard Citation style: Dettmeyer, R. (2016) Postmortem diagnostics of a (post-)viralmyocarditis in putative sudden infant death syndrome. Case report for avoidance of errors in the diagnostics, Rechtsmedizin, 26(6), pp. 514-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-016-0111-4

APA Citation style: Dettmeyer, R. (2016). Postmortem diagnostics of a (post-)viralmyocarditis in putative sudden infant death syndrome. Case report for avoidance of errors in the diagnostics. Rechtsmedizin. 26(6), 514-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00194-016-0111-4