The Doubled-Edged Sword of T1-Mapping in Systemic Sclerosis-A Comparison with Infectious Myocarditis Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
George Markousis-MavrogenisLoukia KoutsogeorgopoulouGkikas KatsifisTheodoros DimitroulasGenovefa KolovouGeorge D KitasPetros P SfikakisSophie I MavrogeniPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
~25% of dcSSc patients with suspected myocardial inflammation had no CMR evidence of acute inflammatory processes. T1-based indices should not be used by themselves as surrogates of acute myocardial inflammation in dcSSc patients.
Keyphrases
- systemic sclerosis
- oxidative stress
- magnetic resonance
- liver failure
- interstitial lung disease
- end stage renal disease
- respiratory failure
- left ventricular
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- drug induced
- aortic dissection
- prognostic factors
- high resolution
- peritoneal dialysis
- computed tomography
- heart failure
- hepatitis b virus