Myocardial Strain for the Differentiation of Myocardial Involvement in the Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19—A Multiparametric Cardiac MRI Study

• Published in: Tomography (Ann Arbor) Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 331 - 348
• Main Authors: Ibrahim, El-Sayed H., Rubenstein, Jason, Sosa, Antonio, Stojanovska, Jadranka, Pan, Amy, North, Paula, Rui, Hallgeir, Benjamin, Ivor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 27.02.2024; MDPI
• Subjects: Cardiac patients; Contrast Media; COVID-19; Disease Progression; Gadolinium; Heart; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Myocarditis; Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome; Prognosis; strain; strain rate; COVID-19; strain; strain rate; MRI; myocarditis

Myocardial involvement was shown to be associated with an unfavorable prognosis in patients with COVID-19, which could lead to fatal outcomes as in myocardial injury-induced arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. We hypothesized that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) myocardial strain parameters are s...