New Echocardiographic Findings Correlate with Intramyocardial Inflammation in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Patients with Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

Table 2

Intramyocardial inflammation by immunohistochemistry and virus genomes by PCR.

Parameter	Acute myocarditis at baseline	Patients without Inflammation at followup	Patients with Inflammation at followup
Inflammation
CD3^+/mm^2	45.0±17.0	4.9±2.1	20.5±5.4 *
LFA-1^+/mm^2	57.7±25.6	3.3±7.1	29.3±7.1 *
Mac-1^+/mm^2	95.5±44.8	19.8±10.4	28.8±13.2
HLA class I/AF	0.082±0.068	0.045±0.015	0.057±0.009
ICAM-1/AF	0.051±0.042	0.023±0.017	0.033±0.0137
Virus
Enterovirus, 𝑛	2	0	1
B19, 𝑛	17	9	10
HHV-6, 𝑛	1	1	0

∗Significant differences between patients with and without inflammation at followup. ns: not significant. Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation.