Multiple Etiologies to Myocardial Injury in COVID-19

Miroslawa Gorecka; Sharmaine Thirunavukarasu; Eylem Levelt; John P Greenwood

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.05.003

Multiple Etiologies to Myocardial Injury in COVID-19

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Jun;3(6):971-972. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.05.003. Epub 2021 Jun 16.

Authors

Miroslawa Gorecka¹, Sharmaine Thirunavukarasu¹, Eylem Levelt¹, John P Greenwood¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.

Abstract

In patients with acute myocardial injury secondary to coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging can identify the underlying pathology. We highlight a case of acute myocardial injury secondary to COVID-19, which demonstrated both epicardial vessel thrombosis and the recently described phenomenon of microvascular thrombosis. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: CMR, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; COVID-19, coronavirus-2019; cardiac magnetic resonance; myocardial infarction; thrombosis.

Grants and funding

MC_PC_20014/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom