Cardiac MRI in Suspected Acute COVID-19 Myocarditis
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"Cardiac MRI in Suspected Acute COVI..." refers background in this paper
...Although primarily affecting the respiratory system, COVID-19 associated myocardial injury is common and can occur directly due to myocardial viral infection or indirectly due to systemic inflammation, endothelial activation, and/or microvascular thrombosis (1, 2)....
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"Cardiac MRI in Suspected Acute COVI..." refers background in this paper
...Although primarily affecting the respiratory system, COVID-19 associated myocardial injury is common and can occur directly due to myocardial viral infection or indirectly due to systemic inflammation, endothelial activation, and/or microvascular thrombosis (1, 2)....
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...This result indicates that the pathomechanism of myocardial inflammation injury might be different in SARS-CoV-2 and is possibly based on an interplay of different broadly affections of the cardiovascular system (2)....
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...Beside myocardial infarction, myocardial injury can also be a result of myocardial inflammation (2)....
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...As the occurrence of myocardial injury and features of stress-induced cardiomyopathy are associated with fatal outcome of COVID-19 infection (2), the observed pronounced diffuse cardiac alterations are of particular interest....
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...control groups consisted of healthy volunteers and participants with suspected acute non-COVID-19 myocarditis (4)....
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...Interestingly, the amount of LGE lesions, as a sign of myocyte necrosis was lower in participants with COVID-19 myocarditis when compared to participants with acute non-COVID-19 myocarditis, which is primarily induced by cardiotropic viruses (4)....
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..., with 8 and 4 years of experience, respectively, in cardiac MRI) were conducted as described previously (5)....
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