柯萨奇B病毒可以引起胸痛,其结果是发生心肌炎,心包炎和流行性胸痛。已被证实的心肌梗死(MI)常常伴有柯萨奇病毒感染的血清学证据。这就提示了这些病毒能使人发生心肌炎,而这种病毒诱发的心肌炎和由于局部缺血性的心脏病引起的心肌梗死,在临床上是难以区别的。本文作者研究了228个不同年龄、性别的住院病人的血清标本,这些标本都是在胸痛发作时采集的。一些病人在入院前都有类 Coxsackie B virus can cause chest pain, the result is the occurrence of myocarditis, pericarditis and epidemic chest pain. Confirmed myocardial infarction (MI) is often accompanied by serological evidence of Coxsackie virus infection. This suggests that these viruses can cause myocarditis in humans, and that viral-induced myocarditis and myocardial infarction caused by ischemic heart disease are clinically indistinguishable. The authors studied serum samples from 228 hospitalized patients of different ages and sex collected during the onset of chest pain. Some patients have a class before admission