Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4245501 | Radiología | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Myocarditis, inflammation of the myocardium, is usually due to viral infection. Diagnostic confirmation in ordinary clinical practice is difficult because the findings on the clinical history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests offer scant diagnostic accuracy, and the differential diagnosis is often done with acute myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become the method of choice for the diagnosis of myocarditis. In this article, we describe the CMR findings at diagnosis and during the follow-up of patients with myocarditis, the differential diagnosis with other acute processes like myocardial infarction, and the prognostic factors studied with CMR.
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Authors
A. Bustos GarcÃa de Castro, B. Cabeza MartÃnez, J. Ferreirós DomÃnguez, C. GarcÃa Villafañe, C. Fernández-GolfÃn,