A new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has discovered the underlying cause of gender ...

Immune checkpoints are a part of the immune system that prevents the body’s immune response from destroying healthy cells. They are proteins on the surface of immune T cells that function by binding ...

Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis. Researchers led by physicians and ...

Purpose: The treatment options for viral myocarditis caused by coxsackievirus B are summarized. Summary: Myocarditis is a common cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. The most common causes of infectious ...

Immunotherapy can activate autoreactive T cells, causing myocarditis in about 1% of patients, with high mortality rates under standard corticosteroid treatment. A study compared standard high-dose ...

Myocarditis is an unpredictable and potentially fatal complication of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Researchers have developed a new biomarker strategy that enables clinicians to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The ACC issued an expert consensus statement on the diagnosis and treatment of myocarditis. The document ...

A novel method of treating immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis may decrease the risk of death from myotoxicity. A novel method of treating immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-associated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Time-restricted eating, particularly among people with underlying metabolic disorders, may confer benefits ...

A new preclinical study has discovered the underlying cause of gender differences in immunotherapy-associated myocarditis after immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. Their findings point to ...