Key result
Cardiac imaging modalities, including cardiac magnetic resonance, echocardiography, computed tomography, and positron emission tomography, play an important role in the evaluation of myocarditis.
Why the study?
Myocarditis remains challenging to diagnose due to non-specific symptoms and lack of specific blood biomarkers, making cardiac imaging critical for evaluation.
Multimodality cardiac imaging is essential for the diagnosis and evaluation of myocarditis, offering unique strengths to overcome the challenges of non-specific symptoms and biomarkers.
Cardiac imaging aids myocarditis evaluation despite diagnostic challenges; leaves open standardized multimodal protocols pending prospective data.
Myocarditis is defined as a non-ischemic inflammatory disease of the myocardium. It remains a challenge to diagnose given non-specific symptoms and lack of specific blood biomarkers. Cardiac imaging plays an important role in the evaluation of myocarditis with unique strengths and limitations of different imaging modalities, including cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, and positron emission tomography. The purpose of this review is to discuss the strengths and limitations of various cardiac imaging techniques in the evaluation of myocarditis, review imaging findings in specific causes of myocarditis including COVID-19 and after vaccination, evaluate the role of imaging in differentiating myocarditis from potential mimics and differential considerations, identify current gaps in knowledge, and propose future directions.
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Fresno et al. (2022) conducted a review in Myocarditis. Cardiac imaging techniques was evaluated. Cardiac imaging modalities, including cardiac magnetic resonance, echocardiography, computed tomography, and positron emission tomography, play an important role in the evaluation of myocarditis.
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