Open AccessDetection of parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6 in pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy: Impact after heart transplantation
Author(s) -
Bibhuti B. Das,
Bhupesh K. Prusty,
Jianli Niu,
MeeiLi Huang,
Haiying Zhu,
Eva Eliassen,
Jane Kuypers,
Keith R. Jerome
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/apc.apc_124_19
Subject(s) - medicine , dilated cardiomyopathy , parvovirus , cardiology , heart transplantation , transplantation , cardiomyopathy , biopsy , heart failure , virus , virology
The aim of this study is to evaluate HHV-6 and PVB19 infection using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and immunofluorescent assay (IFA) in the myocardium of pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and the impact of viral persistence in the cardiac allograft after heart transplantation (HT).