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ReviewHeart failure reviews2019

Diagnostic and prognostic role of cardiac magnetic resonance in acute myocarditis.

Chrysanthos Grigoratos, Gianluca Di Bella, Giovanni Donato Aquaro

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Review in Heart failure reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chrysanthos GrigoratosFondazione Gabriele Monasterio CNR/Regione Toscana, via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy. cgrigoratos@ftgm.it.
Gianluca Di BellaClinical and Experimental Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Giovanni Donato AquaroFondazione Gabriele Monasterio CNR/Regione Toscana, via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio · ITRegione ToscanaUniversity of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute myocarditis (AM) is commonly found in everyday clinical practice. Differential diagnosis between various causes of myocardial damage with non-obstructive coronary arteries can be cumbersome for clinician. Moreover, AM may be provoked by a number of different causes and clinical presentation can be heterogeneous with potential overlap going from asymptomatic or subclinical to severe heart failure, arrhythmias, and death. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) over the last decades has proven to be the diagnostic technique of choice since it allows identifying AM with excellent diagnostic accuracy. Latest technological advancement with parametric imaging such as T1 and T2 mapping further increases sensitivity and provides additional help towards a correct diagnosis. CMR however is no longer to be considered as a mere diagnostic tool but also as a powerful source of prognostic information. Scientific evidence has corroborated CMR's role beyond diagnosis demonstrating how late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) presence is a powerful predictor of cardiac events and how the presence of septal LGE is to be considered of worst prognosis regardless of LGE extension even in patients with preserved global systolic function. CMR should be routinely performed in all patients with AM suspicion since its diagnostic and prognostic role is of paramount important and could modify therapeutic strategy and subsequent clinical decisions.

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Acute DiseaseClinical Decision-MakingContrast MediaData AccuracyDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleGadoliniumHumansMagnetic Resonance Imaging, CineMaleMyocarditisPrognosisSeptum of BrainContrast MediaGadoliniumCardiac magnetic resonanceLate gadolinium enhancementMyocardial fibrosisMyocardial oedemaMyocarditisPrognosis

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