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Cardiac MRI findings in patients with Myocarditis
Y Louvard, T Unterseeh, T Hovasse... - Journal of ..., 2011 - Background Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) is a. The recent conjoint report of the American College of Cardiology and the SCMR has classified its use as appropriate or Class A Indication in inflammatory cardiomyopathy. The aim of this study was to describe ...
Most patients (n=175, 93.6%) had LGE in a pattern sparing the subendocardium. Areas of hypokinesis were common (n = 62, 33.2%), as was the presence of myocardial edema (n = 58, 31.0%). Pericardial effusions were less common (n = 35, 18.7%). Of those patients who also underwent stress perfusion CMR, none showed evidence of ischemia. Left Ventricular ejection fractions were largely preserved (57.3% 10.4%) and end-diastolic volumes normal (69.2 21.4 ml/m2).
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