**Meet the editor**

Dr. Daniela Cihakova is an Assistant Professor and Director of Immunologic Disorders Laboratory at Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Dr. Cihakova was born in the Czech Republic and received her MD and PhD from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.

In particular, she has concentrated on studying myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy using a mouse model of myocarditis called experimental autoimmune myocarditis. With her colleagues, she has recently discovered that Il13 is protective in myocarditis and that IL17A drives the development of dilated cardiomyopathy. She also works on examining the role of monocyte and macrophages during myocarditis pathogenesis. Her other research interests include Sjogren's syndrome, congenital complete heart block, autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 (APECED) and vasculitis.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Clinical Presentation 3** 

Chapter 2 **Myocarditis in Childhood:** 

Laurent Andréoletti

Chapter 6 **Pathogenesis and Pathology** 

Chapter 5 **Perimyocarditis 105** 

Rafid Fayadh Al-Aqeedi

Vedide Tavli and Baris Guven

Chapter 3 **Acute Myocarditis in Emergency Medicine 69**  Yukihiro Ikegami and Choichiro Tase

> Hesham R. Omar, Hany Abdelmalak, Engy Helal and Ahmed Fathy

**of Chagas' Chronic Myocarditis 119**  Julián González, Roberto Guerri-Guttenberg, Daniel Grana, Francisco Azzato and José Milei

Nicolas Hanabergh and James P. Morgan

Chapter 9 **Angiopoietin-1 for Myocardial Angiogenesis 183**  Vien Khach Lai, Muhammad Zeeshan Afzal, Muhammad Ashraf and Khawaja Husnain Haider

Chapter 7 **Myocarditis in HIV Positive Patients 151**  Simona Claudia Cambrea

Chapter 8 **Exacerbation of Viral Myocarditis** 

Chapter 4 **Viral Myocarditis: Physiopathology and Diagnosis 87** 

**Part 1 Myocarditis from Clinical Perspective 1** 

**An Update on Etiology, Diagnosis and Management 39** 

**by Tobacco Smoke: The Catecholamine Hypothesis 169** 
