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09-07-2022 | Myocarditis | Commentary

Myocardial injury after COVID-19 infection and vaccination. Two sides of the same coin or different?

Authors: Marco Ochs, Grigorios Korosoglou

Published in: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging | Issue 9/2022

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In this issue of the journal, Doeblin et al. [1] report on a comparative cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) study in patients after COVID-19 infection versus vaccination, presenting with suspected cardiac involvement due to limiting clinical cardiac symptoms in a tertiary cardiac center. The authors investigated several CMR metrics, including left ventricular (LV)-ejection fraction, myocardial fibrosis, and edema by T1 and T2 mapping techniques, respectively, extracellular volumes (ECV) and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) extent and patterns in 104 patients after COVID-19 infection and 27 individuals after vaccination. In addition, the updated ‘Lake Louise Criteria’ incorporating non-ischemic patterns of myocardial damage and edema by T2 mapping and LGE for the diagnosis of myocarditis [2] were systematically applied in both patient groups. Of note, the presence of other cardiac pathologies, such as myocardial ischemia, pericardial effusion and pericardial LGE, compatible with pericarditis were also evaluated. …

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Title: Myocardial injury after COVID-19 infection and vaccination. Two sides of the same coin or different?
Authors: Marco Ochs
Grigorios Korosoglou
Publication date: 09-07-2022
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keywords: Myocarditis
COVID-19 Vaccination
Vaccination
COVID-19
Published in: The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging / Issue 9/2022
Print ISSN: 1569-5794
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-022-02651-7

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