Journal
RADIOLOGIA MEDICA
Volume 125, Issue 11, Pages 1124-1134Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-020-01279-8
Keywords
Myocarditis; Myocardial inflammation; Cardiac MR; Magnetic resonance imaging
Funding
- Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza within the CRUI-CARE Agreement
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Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle, diagnosed by histological, immunological, and immunohistochemical criteria. Endomyocardial biopsy represents the diagnostic gold standard for its diagnosis but is infrequently used. Due to its noninvasive ability to detect the presence of myocardial edema, hyperemia and necrosis/fibrosis, Cardiac MR imaging is routinely used in the clinical practice for the diagnosis of acute myocarditis. Recently pixel-wise mapping of T1 and T2 relaxation time have been introduced into the clinical Cardiac MR protocol increasing its accuracy. Our paper will review the role of MR imaging in the diagnosis of acute myocarditis.
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