Kardiale MRT

BACKGROUND: The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an equally expediently deployed vaccination campaign with more than 12 billion vaccinations administered worldwide. Reports of vaccine-associated adverse reactions (VAARs) have ranged from headaches and pain at the injection site to potentially life-threatening events such as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. The heart has also not been spared of VAARs, as vaccine-associated myocardial infarction and more commonly, albeit still rare, myocarditis and perimyocarditis have been reported in predominantly young male recipients...

BACKGROUND: The classification of cardiomyopathies used in Germany goes back to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) classification of 2008. The cardiomyopathies are subdivided according to the phenotype, so that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to differentiate between the various cardiomyopathies. IMAGING AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS: The strength of MRI is the ability to differentiate nonischemic cardiomyopathies from other diseases with similar morphofunctional aspects, based on the possibilities of tissue differentiation...

BACKGROUND: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important diagnostic tool for initial diagnostic workup and follow-up of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) of different age groups. OBJECTIVES: This review provides an overview of clinically applied MRI sequences for the assessment of CHD, highlights technical developments, and demonstrates key aspects of reporting in specific heart defects. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Presentation of epidemiologic data, summary of studies on MRI sequences and their clinical application, and demonstration of clinical examples...

UNLABELLED: Myocarditis is known as the chameleon of cardiac diseases. The symptoms and the course of disease vary greatly so that it is often challenging to establish a diagnosis. Early and accurate diagnosis is of utmost importance, since myocarditis is one of the leading causes of sudden cardiac death in young adults and represents an important precursor to dilated cardiomyopathy. Due to the constraints of the routinely used diagnostic approach, including clinical history and examination, laboratory testing, and electrocardiogram, different imaging modalities have emerged over the last decades as contributors to the noninvasive diagnosis of myocarditis...