Florence A Aeschlimann, Nilanjana Misra, Tarique Hussein, Elena Panaioli, Jonathan H Soslow, Kimberly Crum, Jeremy M Steele, Steffen Huber, Simona Marcora, Paolo Brambilla, Supriya Jain, Maria Navallas, Valentina Giuli, Beate Rücker, Felix Angst, Mehul D Patel, Arshid Azarine, Pablo Caro-Domínguez, Annachiara Cavaliere, Giovanni Di Salvo, Francesca Ferroni, Gabriella Agnoletti, Laurent Bonnemains, Duarte Martins, Nathalie Boddaert, James Wong, Kuberan Pushparajah, Francesca Raimondi
BACKGROUND: Recent evidence shows an association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and a severe inflammatory syndrome in children. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data about myocardial injury in children are limited to small cohorts. The aim of this multicenter, international registry is to describe clinical and cardiac characteristics of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 using CMR so as to better understand the real extent of myocardial damage in this vulnerable cohort...
December 30, 2021: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance