Noninvasive Differentiation Between Active and Healed Myocarditis by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Are We There Yet?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-142

  Mahrholdt, Heiko ^a   Sechtem, Udo ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiac MR; endomyocardial biopsy; myocarditis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEART EDEMA; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDEMA, CARDIAC; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 59649116032     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.10.009     Document Type: Editorial

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