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• Background and significance:
COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) is a public health emergency of international concern. Radiological, lung function changes were reported in different studies of pulmonary viral infection.
After a patient has recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),
Background Heart transplantation is a treatment for select patients with end-stage heart failure. Improvements in immunosuppressive therapies and patient management have increased the life expectancy of heart transplant patients. One-year survivals are 90% and 80%, with 65 % and 49% of pediatric and
In this study, the investigators will analyze the effect of acute myocarditis-induced damage on LV myocardial deformation and remodeling both in the acute myocarditis phase and follow-up period (about 2 years later). The investigators will use a combined approach including strain echocardiography to
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle, which is mostly caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxic substances/drugs or by primary autoimmune mechanisms. In the first phase of acute myocarditis direct cell damage, in a second phase myocardial inflammation with additional
The disease is caused predominantly by Shiga toxin-producing enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (STEC) and is one of the most common etiologies of acute kidney injury (AKI) and an important cause of acquired chronic kidney disease in children [2]. The incidence of HUC tends to parallel the seasonal
Background and Significance:
In patients with acute myocarditis (AM), spontaneous improvement can be observed in the majority of cases, but progression towards dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a not rare outcome (around 20% of patients) (Feldmann N Engl J Med 2000;343:1388-98). Differences in the
Heart Failure (HF) As heart failure is defined as a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder and affects the ability of the ventricle to accept or eject blood. Its incidence is increasing in recent years in the Western world. It is estimated that
In patients with clinical suspicion of myocarditis biventricular endomyocardial biopsy is performed for definite diagnosis. In addition, patients undergo magnetic resonance imaging at 1.5 Tesla and 3.0 Tesla within 24 hours. The imaging protocol of both scan include assessment of myocardial edema
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an established non-invasive diagnostic tool for acute and chronic myocarditis. Established CMR criteria for diagnosing myocarditis are edema on black-blood T2-weighted imaging, relative contrast enhancement seen on T1-weighted imaging for assessment of hyperemia,
The over-arching goal of this work is to further the understanding of myocardial damage in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using state of the art CV imaging to investigate a novel potential mechanism of CV injury in SLE, subclinical myocardial inflammation.
Aim 1: Investigate an alternative
Background: Since the initial Japanese description of Takotsubo's cardiomyopathy in 1991 as a transient systolic dysfunction of the apical or mid left ventricular segments in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease, stress induced cardiomyopathy has been increasingly recognized in the
Study Rationale Because of its unique combination of morphological and functional imaging with tissue characterization, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become the non-invasive diagnostic tool of choice for assessing myocarditis. Recently, standard diagnostic CMR criteria for myocarditis
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging will be used to assess the impact of a common colds and physical training in high-performing athletes. Healthy individuals from the general public will serve as a comparison group. CMR has previously been shown to accurately assess cardiac function,
Dilated forms of cardiomyopathies present with left ventricular enlargement and reduced ejection fraction. Myocardial fibrosis as assessed by gradient echo sequences after contrast application ("late enhancement") has been proven to be of outstanding value for the detection of small irreversibly