Is steroid therapy really banned for lymphocytic myocarditis before excluding viral infection?

Eur Heart J

Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Nippon Medical School Tama-Nagayama Hospital, 1-7-1 Nagayama, Tama-shi, Tokyo, Japan.

Published: March 2019

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