Diffuse Myocardial Inflammation in COVID-19 Associated Myocarditis Detected by Multiparametric Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 May;13(5):e010897. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.120.010897. Epub 2020 May 13.

Julian Alexander Luetkens^#^{1

2}, Alexander Isaak^#^{1

2}, Sebastian Zimmer^#^{3

4}, Jacob Nattermann³, Alois Martin Sprinkart^{1

2}, Christoph Boesecke^{5

4}, Gereon Jonas Rieke^{5

4}, Christian Zachoval³, Annkristin Heine^#⁶, Markus Velten^#⁷, Georg Daniel Duerr^#⁸

¹ Department of Radiology (J.A.L., A.I., A.M.S.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
² Quantitative Imaging Lab Bonn (QILaB) (J.A.L., A.I., A.M.S.).
³ Department of Internal Medicine II - Cardiology (S.Z., C.Z.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
⁴ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner-site Cologne-Bonn (J.N., C.B., G.J.R.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine I (J.N., C.B., G.J.R.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
⁶ Department of Internal Medicine III - Oncology, Hematology, Rheumatology and Immune-Oncology (A.H.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology (M.V.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.
⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery (G.D.D.), University Hospital Bonn, Germany.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: coronavirus; magnetic resonance imaging; myocarditis; syncope.

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