心肌炎是较常见的儿童疾病,多数发生于小儿呼吸道感染以后。很多容易侵犯呼吸道的病毒,也可能会直接侵犯心肌或者通过免疫反应机制而损害心肌,引发心肌炎并发症。这类病毒比较常见的是柯萨奇B组病毒。还有如流感病毒、埃可病毒、腺病毒、疱疹病毒、腮腺炎病毒等感染后都可以引发心肌炎。冬春季由于呼吸道感染发病增多,导致心肌炎的发病也相应增多。 Myocarditis is the most common childhood disease, most of which occurs after pediatric respiratory infections. Many viruses that easily invade the respiratory tract may also directly invade the myocardium or damage the myocardium through an immune response mechanism, triggering a complication of myocarditis. The most common type of virus is Coxsackie B virus. There are such as influenza virus, echovirus, adenovirus, herpes virus, mumps virus infection can cause myocarditis. Winter and spring increased incidence of respiratory infections, leading to a corresponding increase in the incidence of myocarditis.