National Trends, Sex, Management and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized for Myocarditis

Myocarditis is a major cause of acute and chronic cardiomyopathy. Data on patient characteristics utilization of healthcare, and outcomes of myocarditis-related hospitalizations are limited. We sought to analyze the outcomes of patients hospitalized with myocarditis from a large diverse, multicentric, nationwide cohort using Nationwide Inpatient Sample database. A total of 27,129 hospitalizations involving adult patients (age ≥ 18 years) with the primary discharge diagnosis of myocarditis from years 2007 through 2014 were included and patients who had diagnosis of myocardial infarction or coronary syndromes (including unstable angina) during the same hospitalization were excluded. More men were hospitalized compared with women (66% vs 34%, p