Key result
Hybrid PET/MR with biopsy successfully identifies eosinophilic myocarditis in recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
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Population
32-year-old man with recurrent ventricular tachycardia and peripheral eosinophilia
Design
Case report using multi-modality cardiac imaging and biopsy
May facilitate eosinophilic myocarditis diagnosis in VT with eosinophilia; hypothesis-generating, requiring larger studies before broader adoption.
A 32-year-old man presented with recurrent ventricular tachycardia and peripheral eosinophilia. Echocardiogram showed features suggestive of infiltrative cardiomyopathy. A hybrid PET/MR demonstrated the characteristic features of myocarditis, the absence of extra-cardiac FDG uptake, and an endomyocardial biopsy showed the features of eosinophilic myocarditis.
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Kulkarni et al. (2023) studied this question. Hybrid PET/MR and endomyocardial biopsy successfully diagnosed eosinophilic myocarditis in a 32-year-old man presenting with recurrent ventricular tachycardia and peripheral eosinophilia.
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