Detection of myocarditis by contrast-enhanced MRI in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome but no coronary stenosis

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 957-964

  Codreanu, Andrei ^a,b,c   Djaballah, Wassila ^a,b   Angioi, Michael ^a   Ethevenot, Gérard ^a   Moulin, Frederic ^a   Felblinger, Jacques ^a,b   Sadoul, Nicolas ^a   Karcher, Gilles ^a   Aliot, Etienne ^a   Marie, Pierre Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Cardiac MRI; Contrast enhancement; Myocardial infarction; Myocarditis

Indexed keywords

METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHEST PAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TROPONIN I;

EID: 34247882703     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20897     Document Type: Article

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