Myocardial injury associated with chronic hepatitis C: Clinical types and pathogenetic components

Abstract

Heart injury is one of the extrahepatic manifestations of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The paper gives Russian and foreign authors’ data on a relationship between CHC and myocardial injury. It discusses different pathogenetic components (the direct effect of the virus, immunological components), through which hepatitis C virus can induce myocarditis and cardiomyopathies in patients with CHC.

Keywords

• chronic hepatitis c
• myocarditis
• cardiomyopathy