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Treatment and prognosis

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Treatment is supportive; it includes management of the cardiac failure with digoxin, diuretics and oxygen.

20% of cases fail to make a full recovery. Some progress to endocardial fibroelastosis, and others die.

In particular Coxsackie B myocarditis in neonates has an 80% mortality.


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