Eosinophilic myocarditis associated with anti-mitochondrial M2 antibodies: a mechanism underlying the onset of myocarditis

Eur Heart J. 2018 Oct 1;39(37):3480-3481. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy246.

Authors

Tsunenori Saito¹, Eitaro Kodani¹, Hironori Katayama², Yoshiki Kusama¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Nippon Medical School Tama-Nagayama Hospital, 1-7-1 Nagayama, Tama-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Pathology, Nippon Medical School Tama-Nagayama Hospital, 1-7-1 Nagayama, Tama-shi, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 29688291
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy246

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Autoantibodies / blood
Autoantibodies / immunology*
Eosinophilia*
Female
Hamstring Muscles / pathology
Humans
Mitochondrial Proteins / immunology*
Muscular Dystrophies, Limb-Girdle
Myocarditis*
Myocardium* / cytology
Myocardium* / pathology

Substances

Autoantibodies
Mitochondrial Proteins

Supplementary concepts

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A