Expands definition of career appointment: a limited appointment will be designated as a career appointment when the incumbent has attained 1,000 hours of qualifying service in any 12 consecutive months without a break in service of at least 120 consecutive calendar days.
Myocarditis. Myocarditis occurs when a virus (or, more rarely, a bacteria or fungus) infects the body, causing an inflammation of the heart muscle. Myocarditis can also be caused by an adverse reaction to certain medicines, such as chemotherapy drugs, and exposure to some chemicals. Learn more about Myocarditis.
Other infectious or-ganisms, such as rickettsiae and parasites, may alsocause inflammation in the heart muscle. In Centraland South America, myocarditis is often due to Cha-gas disease, an infectious illness that is transmittedby insects.Noninfectious causes of myocarditis are numer-ous, but all of them are rare.nlike many other cardiovasculardisorders that tend to affect the elderly, cardiomy-opathy commonly occurs in the young and can havea tragically brief course.Cardiomyopathy (cardio meaning heart, myopathymeaning muscle disease) refers to a group of disor-ders that directly damage the muscle of the heartwalls.