Multimodality imaging in acute myocarditis.
Giuseppe MuscogiuriAndrea Igoren GuaricciRiccardo CauLuca SabaAlberto SenatieriGregorio ChierchiaGianluca PontoneValentina VolpatoAnna PalmisanoAntonio EspositoPaolo BasilePaolo MarraTommaso D AngeloChristian BoozMark RabbatSandro SironiPublished in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2022)
The diagnosis of acute myocarditis often involves several noninvasive techniques that can provide information regarding volumes, ejection fraction, and tissue characterization. In particular, echocardiography is extremely helpful for the evaluation of biventricular volumes, strain and ejection fraction. Cardiac magnetic resonance, beyond biventricular volumes, strain, and ejection fraction allows to characterize myocardial tissue providing information regarding edema, hyperemia, and fibrosis. Contemporary cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) can not only be extremely important for the assessment of coronary arteries, pulmonary arteries and aorta but also tissue characterization using CCTA can be an additional tool that can explain chest pain with a diagnosis of myocarditis.
Keyphrases
- ejection fraction
- aortic stenosis
- left ventricular
- magnetic resonance
- liver failure
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- respiratory failure
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- aortic dissection
- coronary artery disease
- drug induced
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- health information
- pulmonary artery
- aortic valve
- heart failure
- magnetic resonance imaging
- social media
- mass spectrometry
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- contrast enhanced
- image quality