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Acute Myocarditis

Studies from O. Goitein and co-researchers update current data on acute myocarditis

Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, February 14th, 2009

According to recent research from Tel Aviv, Israel, "The diagnosis of acute myocarditis is challenging. Nonspecific clinical presentation and an overlap with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction present a diagnostic dilemma."

"The purpose of this article is to describe the role of cardiac MRI and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the diagnosis of acute myocarditis. Thirty-two sequential patients (all male; average age, 33 years) with clinically suspected myocarditis were included. All patients underwent cardiac MRI with sequences dedicated for the evaluation of myocardial delayed enhancement and TTE for the evaluation of wall motion abnormalities (WMAs)....

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