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BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 1001, Pages E99-E102Publisher
BRITISH INST RADIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/13448473
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High-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) therapy may cause acute myocarditis characterised by diffuse myocardial involvement and occasionally fulminant heart failure. Cardiac MRI (CMRI) provides a comprehensive assessment of myocardial function, inflammation and injury in a single examination and has shown value in the diagnosis of myocarditis. We report a case of a 54-year-old male with metastatic melanoma who developed acute severe myocarditis with fulminant heart failure after high-dose IL-2 therapy. CMRI using a combination of T-2 weighted imaging and T-1 weighted late post-gadolinium enhancement techniques played a key role in establishing the diagnosis. To our knowledge we present the first case report of the combined use of T-1 and T-2 weighted CMRI techniques to diagnose IL-2 induced myocarditis.
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