Myocarditis and COVID-19: Philosophy and Diagnostic Contradictions in the heart of the Cardiac Imaging era

Authors

  • Martín Lombardero Hospitals of Trinidad Palermo, Trinidad San Isidro and Trinidad Ramos Mejia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37615/retic.v4n2a1

Keywords:

Myocarditis, COVID-19

Abstract

In this article, the author reviews the new challenges that COVID 19 myocarditis poses to cardiac imaging techniques.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

References

Dennert R, Crijns HJ, Heymans S. Acute viral myocarditis. Eur Heart J. 2008; 29: 2073–2082. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehn296 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehn296

Caforio A, Pankuweit S, Arbustini E, Basso C, Gimeno-Blanes J, Felix S. Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. Eur Heart J 2013; 34: 2636-2648. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eht210 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eht210

Aretz HT. Myocarditis: The Dallas Criteria. Human Pathology Volume 18, Issue 6, June 1987, Pages 619-624. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0046-8177(87)80363-5

Lagana N, Cei M, Evangelista I, Cerutti S, Colombo A, Conte L, et al. Suspected Mycarditis en Patient With COVID19. Medicine 2021;100(8): e24552. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000024552 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000024552

Chilazi M, Duffy EY , Thakkar A , Michos ED. COVID and Cardiovascular Disease: What We Know in 2021. Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2021; 23 (7): 37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-021-00935-2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-021-00935-2

Raghavan S, Gayathri R, Kancharla S, Kolli P, Ranjitha J and Shankar V Cardiovascular Impacts on COVID-19 Infected Patients Cardiovasc. Front Cardiovasc Med 2021 May 13;8:670659 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.670659 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.670659

Fernando Dominguez, Uwe Kuhl, Burkert Pieske, Pablo Garcia-Pavia y Carsten Tscho. Actualización sobre miocarditis y miocardiopatía inflamatoria: el resurgir de la biopsia endomiocardica. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2016;69(2):178–187 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.recesp.2015.10.018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.recesp.2015.10.018

Lindner D, Fitzek A, Brauninger H, Aleshcheva G, Edler C, Meissner K, et al. Association of Cardiac Infection With SARS-CoV-2 in Confirmed Autopsy Cases. JAMA Cardiol. 2020;5(11):1281–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3551 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3551

Marc K. Halushka , Richard S. Vander Heide. Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations. Cardiovasc Pathol Jan-Feb 2021;50:107300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107300 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107300

Marisa Dolhnikoff et col. SARS-Cov2 In Cardiac Tissue Of A Children With COVID-19 Related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020.4:790-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30257-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30257-1

Moody WE, Liu B, Mahmoud-Elsayed HM, Senior J, Lalla S, Khan-kheil AM, et al. Persisting Adverse Ventricular Remodeling In COVID-19 Survivors A Longitudinal Echocardiographic Study.J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2021 May;34(5):562-566. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2021.01.020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2021.01.020

Valentina O. Puntmann, MD, PhD; M. Ludovica Carerj, MD; Imke Wieters, et col. Outcomes of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients Recently Recovered From Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). JAMA Cardiol. doi: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2020.3557

Xiaoyan Wu et col. Cardiac Involvement in Recovered Patients From COVID-19: A Preliminary 6 Month Follow Up Study.Front Cardiovasc Med 2021 May 13;8:654405 doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.654405 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.654405

Dermot Phelan et col. An Expert Consensus Statement: Screening Of Potencial Cardiac Involvement in Competitive Athletes Recovering From COVID-19. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Dec. 13 (12) 2635-52. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.10.005 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.10.005

Published

2021-08-31

How to Cite

1.
Lombardero M. Myocarditis and COVID-19: Philosophy and Diagnostic Contradictions in the heart of the Cardiac Imaging era. Rev Ecocardiogr Pract Otras Tec Imag Card (RETIC) [Internet]. 2021 Aug. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];4(2):1-2. Available from: https://imagenretic.org/RevEcocarPract/article/view/393