Key result
Multimodality imaging with echo, CMR, and CCTA characterizes structure and tissue to diagnose acute myocarditis.
Why the study?
What is the role of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and evaluation of acute myocarditis?
What is the role of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and evaluation of acute myocarditis?
Multimodality imaging, including echocardiography, CMR, and CCTA, plays a crucial role in the comprehensive evaluation and tissue characterization of acute myocarditis.
May support multimodality imaging for acute myocarditis evaluation; leaves open need for prospective validation and standardized protocols.
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.
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Muscogiuri et al. (2022) conducted a review in Acute myocarditis. Multimodality imaging was evaluated. Multimodality imaging techniques, including echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, and cardiac computed tomography angiography, provide comprehensive structural and tissue characterization for diagnosing acute myocarditis.
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