List of works by Felicitas Escher

A Patient with Quadricuspid Aortic Valve and Ischemic Stroke

scientific article published in July 2016

Absent MicroRNAs in Different Tissues of Patients with Acquired Cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 27 July 2016

Association of Cardiac Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in Confirmed COVID-19 Autopsy Cases

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Betaferon in chronic viral cardiomyopathy (BICC) trial: Effects of interferon-β treatment in patients with chronic viral cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

CCR5del32 genotype in human enteroviral cardiomyopathy leads to spontaneous virus clearance and improved outcome compared to wildtype CCR5

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Cardiac Function Remains Impaired Despite Reversible Cardiac Remodeling after Acute Experimental Viral Myocarditis

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

Cardiac SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with pro-inflammatory transcriptomic alterations within the heart

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Cardiac iron concentration in relation to systemic iron status and disease severity in non-ischaemic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Cardiac migration of endogenous mesenchymal stromal cells in patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy

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Cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of interleukin converting enzyme inhibition in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published in May 2007

Chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6 in heart failure: prevalence and treatment.

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

Circulating rather than cardiac angiotensin-(1-7) stimulates cardioprotection after myocardial infarction.

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Detection of viral SARS-CoV-2 genomes and histopathological changes in endomyocardial biopsies

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Development of diastolic heart failure in a 6-year follow-up study in patients after acute myocarditis

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Diagnostic assessment and follow-up of cardiac sarcoidosis in a patient presenting with ventricular tachycardia

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Diastolic tissue Doppler indexes correlate with the degree of collagen expression and cross-linking in heart failure and normal ejection fraction

scientific article published in February 2011

Differential Cardiac MicroRNA Expression Predicts the Clinical Course in Human Enterovirus Cardiomyopathy

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Digital image analysis system for the quantification of infiltrates and cell adhesion molecules in inflammatory cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on May 2002

Down-regulation of endothelial TLR4 signalling after apo A-I gene transfer contributes to improved survival in an experimental model of lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation

scientific article published on 24 October 2010

Evaluation of Myocardial Gene Expression Profiling for Superior Diagnosis of Idiopathic Giant-Cell Myocarditis and Clinical Feasibility in a Large Cohort of Patients with Acute Cardiac Decompensation

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with clinically suspected myocarditis tested negative for COVID-19 in nasopharyngeal swab

scientific article published on 20 June 2020

Familial Recurrent Myocarditis Triggered by Exercise in Patients With a Truncating Variant of the Desmoplakin Gene

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Fatal recurrence of fulminant giant cell myocarditis and recovery after initialisation of an alternative immunosuppressive regime

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

High Perforin-Positive Cardiac Cell Infiltration and Male Sex Predict Adverse Long-Term Mortality in Patients With Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

High incidence of cardiac dysfunction and response to antiviral treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

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Human Parvovirus B19 (B19V) Up-regulates CXCR4 Surface Expression of Circulating Angiogenic Cells: Implications for Cardiac Ischemia in B19V Cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Human apolipoprotein A-I gene transfer reduces the development of experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Immunohistological detection of Parvovirus B19 capsid proteins in endomyocardial biopsies from dilated cardiomyopathy patients

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Impaired Endothelial Regeneration Through Human Parvovirus B19-Infected Circulating Angiogenic Cells in Patients With Cardiomyopathy

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Induction of coxsackievirus-adenovirus-receptor expression during myocardial tissue formation and remodeling: identification of a cell-to-cell contact-dependent regulatory mechanism

scientific article published in February 2003

Intramyocardial Inflammation after COVID-19 Vaccination: An Endomyocardial Biopsy-Proven Case Series

scientific article published in 2022

Intramyocardial inflammation predicts adverse outcome in patients with cardiac AL amyloidosis

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Long noncoding RNA MALAT1-derived mascRNA is involved in cardiovascular innate immunity.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Long noncoding RNA NEAT1 modulates immune cell functions and is suppressed in early onset myocardial infarction patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Long-term outcome of patients with virus-negative chronic myocarditis or inflammatory cardiomyopathy after immunosuppressive therapy

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

MicroRNA profiling as a novel diagnostic tool for identification of patients with inflammatory and/or virally induced cardiomyopathies

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Multimodality imaging approach in the diagnosis of chronic myocarditis with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (MCpEF): The role of 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Myeloid differentiation factor-88 contributes to TLR9-mediated modulation of acute coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis in vivo

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy: from diagnosis to treatment.

scientific article published in December 2015

New echocardiographic findings correlate with intramyocardial inflammation in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with acute myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Parvovirus B19 profiles in patients presenting with acute myocarditis and chronic dilated cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published in December 2008

Presence of perforin in endomyocardial biopsies of patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy predicts poor outcome

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

Prevention of cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats by transgenic expression of the human tissue kallikrein gene

scientific article published on May 2004

Proof of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes in Endomyocardial Biopsy with Latency After Acute Infection

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Reduced degradation of the chemokine MCP-3 by matrix metalloproteinase-2 exacerbates myocardial inflammation in experimental viral cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

Renin inhibition improves cardiac function and remodeling after myocardial infarction independent of blood pressure

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Reversible transition from a hypertrophic to a dilated cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 09 December 2015

Right ventricular function and mechanics in chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-naïve cancer patients

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

T1 and T2 mapping to detect chronic inflammation in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

The angiotensin-(1-7) receptor agonist AVE0991 is cardioprotective in diabetic rats

scientific article published on 24 May 2008

The forkhead transcription factor Foxo3 negatively regulates natural killer cell function and viral clearance in myocarditis

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

The utility of speckle tracking imaging in the diagnostic of acute myocarditis, as proven by endomyocardial biopsy

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Toll-like receptor-4 deficiency attenuates doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy in mice

scientific article published on 5 March 2008

Toll-like receptor-4 modulates survival by induction of left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction in mice.

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Transgenic activation of the kallikrein-kinin system inhibits intramyocardial inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 29 August 2005