10-year survival outcome after clinically suspected acute myocarditis in adults: A nationwide study in the pre-COVID-19 era.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical courses of acute myocarditis are heterogeneous in populations and geographic regions. There is a dearth of long-term outcomes data for acute myocarditis prior to the coronavirus disease pandemic, particularly in the older and female population. This study aimed to provide the nationwide epidemiologic approximates of clinically suspected acute myocarditis across adults of all ages over the long term.

Methods

From the nationwide governmental health insurance database, a retrospective cohort comprised all patients aged 20-79 who were hospitalized for clinically suspected acute myocarditis without underlying cardiac diseases from 2006 to 2018. The complicated phenotype was defined as requiring hemodynamic or major organ support. Over 10 years, all-cause morta

SUBMITTER: Kim MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888677 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature