Diagnosis and treatment of HCV heart diseases.

Introduction: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is an important cause of a variety of otherwise unexplained heart diseases and myocardial injury. A high prevalence of HCV infection has been noted in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy and myocarditis. Various arrhythmias, conduction disturbances and QT prolongation were also associated with HCV infection.