Clinical Value and Prognostic Impact of Pericardial Involvement in Acute Myocarditis

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Feb;12(2):e008504. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008504.

¹ Clinical and Experimental Department of Medicine, University of Messina, Italy (G.D.B., R.D.).
² Cardiology Department, Maria Vittoria Hospital, Torino, Italy (M.I.).
³ Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Italy (M.I.).
⁴ Department of Radiology, UZ Leuven, Belgium (J.B.).
⁵ Cardiology Department, Gabriele Monasterio Foundation-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Region Toscana, Pisa, Italy (F.P., G.D.A.).
⁶ Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di studi e di Perfezionamento Universiario, Institute of Life Sciences, Pisa, Italy (F.P.).
⁷ Cardiac Department, Vannini Hospital Rome, Roma, Italy (G.C.).
⁸ Radiology Department, Humanitas Research Hospital, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rozzano, Milan, Italy (L.M.).
⁹ Division of Cardiology, Villa dei Fiori, Acerra, Napoli, Italy (S.D.).
¹⁰ Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (S.D.).
¹¹ UO Cardiologia e UTIC, ASST Monza, PO Desio (C.M.).
¹² Cardiology Department, Policlinico Casilino, Rome, Italy (C.L., A.F.).
¹³ Cardiac Department, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Milano, Italy (G.P.).
¹⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Italy (M.P.M.).
¹⁵ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy (A.S.).
¹⁶ Institute of Clinical Physiology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy (A.P.).

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Keywords: edema; inflammation; magnetic resonance imaging; myocarditis; pericarditis.

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