Does cardiovascular magnetic resonance using Lake Louise criteria detect silent myocarditis in systemic sclerosis patients without cardiac symptoms?
CMR using Lake Louise criteria is a promising tool to detect silent myocarditis in asymptomatic systemic sclerosis patients, as traditional blood biomarkers do not correlate with its presence.
Silent myocarditis may be diagnosed using the Lake Louise paper criteria in SSc patients without cardiac symptoms, has no correlation with blood inflammatory indices, cardiac troponin or disease characteristics. CMR is a promising tool to diagnose silent myocarditis in SSc and monitor the response to immunosuppressive treatment.
Mavrogeni et al. (Mon,) studied this question.