Population
65 patients with clinically acute myocarditis, mean age 42 (SD 15), 41 male.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May flag young men for closer fibrosis monitoring in myocarditis; hypothesis-generating and needs longitudinal validation before practice change.
Younger age (<40 years) and male gender are associated with more severe, irreversible myocardial injury (fibrosis) in acute myocarditis as detected by CMR.
Cocker et al. (2009) studied this question.
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