title: [Myocarditis: magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis and follow-up].
abstract: Myocarditis, inflammation of the myocardium, is usually due to viral infection. Diagnostic confirmation in ordinary clinical practice is difficult because the findings on the clinical history, physical examination, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests offer scant diagnostic accuracy, and the differential diagnosis is often done with acute myocardial infarction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become the method of choice for the diagnosis of myocarditis. In this article, we describe the CMR findings at diagnosis and during the follow-up of patients with myocarditis, the differential diagnosis with other acute processes like myocardial infarction, and the prognostic factors studied with CMR.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, España. abustos.hcsc@salud.madrid.org
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bustos García de Castro
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cabeza Martínez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferreirós Domínguez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: García Villafañe
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández-Golfín
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D055815:Young Adult