BC42.1
category
Infectious myocarditis
Definition
Infectious myocarditis (infectious inflammatory cardiomyopathy) is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to discrete infectious external antigens such as a virus, bacteria or parasite.
Exclusions
- Acute or subacute infectious endocarditis
(BB40) - Acute rheumatic myocarditis
(1B41.2) - Myoendocarditis
(BB41)
Also indexed as
Acute bacterial myocarditisAspergillus inflammatory cardiomyopathyAspergillus myocarditisBacterial myocarditisChronic bacterial myocarditisFungal myocarditisHelminthic myocarditisInfectious myocarditisMyocardial abscessParasitic myocarditisProtozoal myocarditisRickettsial myocarditisSeptic myocarditisSpirochaetal myocarditisViral myocarditisbacterial fibroid myocarditisbacterial inflammatory cardiomyopathybacterial interstitial myocarditisbacterial old myocarditisfungal inflammatory cardiomyopathyheart abscess NOShelminthic inflammatory cardiomyopathyinfection myocarditisinfectious inflammatory cardiomyopathyinfectious inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathymyocarditis due to infectious agentparasitic dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyparasitic inflammatory cardiomyopathyprotozoal dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyprotozoal inflammatory cardiomyopathyrickettsial dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyrickettsial inflammatory cardiomyopathyspirochetal dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyspirochetal inflammatory cardiomyopathyviral dilated-hypokinetic cardiomyopathyviral inflammatory cardiomyopathy