Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with acute myocarditis and chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy : A review paper with practical recommendations on behalf of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR)

Federico Caobelli; Jordi Broncano Cabrero; Nicola Galea; Philip Haaf; Christian Loewe; Julian A Luetkens; Giuseppe Muscogiuri; Marco Francone

doi:10.1007/s10554-023-02927-6

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with acute myocarditis and chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy : A review paper with practical recommendations on behalf of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR)

Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Nov;39(11):2221-2235. doi: 10.1007/s10554-023-02927-6. Epub 2023 Sep 8.

Authors

Federico Caobelli¹, Jordi Broncano Cabrero², Nicola Galea³, Philip Haaf⁴, Christian Loewe⁵, Julian A Luetkens⁶, Giuseppe Muscogiuri⁷, Marco Francone^{8

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse 18, Bern, 3000, Switzerland. [email protected].
² Cardiothoracic Imaging Unit, Hospital San Juan de Dios. HT médica, Córdoba, Spain.
³ Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 324, Rome, 00161, Italy.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, and University of Basel, Petersgraben 4, Basel, CH-4031, Switzerland.
⁵ Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Spitalgasse 9, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
⁶ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127, Bonn, Germany.
⁷ Department of Radiology, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
⁸ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, 20072, Italy.
⁹ IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano, Milan, 20089, Italy.

Abstract

Advanced cardiac imaging techniques such as cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and positron emission tomography (PET) are widely used in clinical practice in patients with acute myocarditis and chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathies (I-CMP). We aimed to provide a review article with practical recommendations from the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), in order to guide physicians in the use and interpretation of CMR and PET in clinical practice both for acute myocarditis and follow-up in chronic forms of I-CMP.

Keywords: Cardiac magnetic resonance; Cardiac positron emission tomography; Chronic inflammatory cardiac disease; Myocarditis; Noninvasive diagnosis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathies* / diagnostic imaging
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Myocarditis* / diagnostic imaging
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
Predictive Value of Tests
Radiology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods