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A publication of the Cardiovascular Imaging Department of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology
Uma publicação do Departamento de Imagem Cardiovascular da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia
DOI: 10.47593/2675-312X/20213403eabc218
Introduction Myocarditis can have a varied clinical presentation ranging from chest pain and mild dyspnea to cardiogenic shock and sudden death. It is defined as myocardial inflammation with myocyte necrosis or degeneration without ischemia and may result from infectious and non-infectious causes, with viral myocarditis being the most prevalent etiology. Myocarditis most commonly affects young male adults, being detected in up to 12% of patients aged under 40 years who had sudden death. Its diagnosis is fundamentally based on clinical […]
Keywords: Death; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myocarditis; sudden