Myocarditis Prevention and Prognosis

Prevention of myocarditis is the causes prevention, mainly prevent and treat HIV infections, the digestive tract and respiratory infections. Normal physical training should be strengthened to enhance their resistance to prevent the common cold. For some patients vulnerable to cold and, if necessary, can be used to enhance immunity of some substances such as immunoglobulins, in order to prevent the virus from repeated infections. On the one hand, HIV infection can be a direct result of viral myocarditis, on the other hand, could be consolidated or bacterial infection in the active stage of rheumatic fever, which led to other types of myocarditis, and thus the prevention of HIV infection on the prevention of myocarditis is very important. Once infected with HIV, patients with early treatment, rest and reasonable to prevent the further development of the disease, affecting the function of the heart, causing myocarditis. Myocarditis recovery activities may be appropriate in order to not cause severe symptoms, but should avoid pregnancy, the more strenuous exercise, alcohol and other harmful factors of the heart normally be 3-6 months of rest before gradually returning to work.

The prognosis of myocarditis in patients suffering from myocarditis depends on their type and location of myocardial damage, scope, extent, and the original state of the heart function, with or without complications, the treatment of a variety of factors such as whether a timely manner. Generally speaking, the vast majority of viral myocarditis in patients with good prognosis, and more in a few weeks to several months to be fully restored, cured, only a very small number of patients with left over the so-called "legacy", the performance for the ECG abnormalities, most of them as early as stroke, can be developed for individual patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, and even lead to sudden death. Rheumatic myocarditis in patients with viral myocarditis than in patients with heart failure-prone, and even acute pulmonary edema. Idiopathic myocarditis in patients with poor prognosis may be a few weeks died of heart failure. Parts of the limitations of myocardial damage; small, the prognosis of patients with the degree of light, and vice versa poor. In addition, timely treatment for the rest of the prognosis of patients with myocarditis have a greater impact, if patients did not receive rest and treatment as soon as possible, on the one hand, further deterioration can myocarditis, on the other hand, led to the emergence of a variety of complications, making the future treatment difficult, is not conducive to the resumption of the disease.

Most patients recovered after appropriate treatment is not left behind any symptoms or signs. A very small number of patients in the acute stage because of serious arrhythmia, acute heart failure and cardiogenic shock and death. There are some patients after the acute phase of inflammation as a result of sustained, to chronic myocarditis, the heart of the gradual emergence of progressive expansion, heart dysfunction, arrhythmia, after a few years later died of complications of the above. Generally within 6 months for the acute phase, 6 months to 1 year for recovery, more than 1 year for chronic phase. Acute phase in patients with chronic non-specific and difficult to distinguish between cardiomyopathy, cardiomyopathy in part evolved from myocarditis.