The utility of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of adult patients with acute myocarditis : a systematic review and meta-analysis

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BACKGROUND: The presence of myocardial late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) indicates myocyte necrosis, and assists with the diagnosis of acute myocarditis (AM). Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) measures other than LGE i.e. tissue characterization and myocardial structural and functional parameters, play an important diagnostic role in assessment for inflammation, as seen in AM. The aim of this systematic review was to appraise the evidence for the use of quantitative CMR measures to identify myocardial inflammation in order to diagnose AM in adult patients.

METHODS: A systematic literature search of medical databases was performed using PRISMA principles to identify relevant CMR studies on AM in adults (2005-2020; English; PROSPERO registration CRD42020180605). Data for a range of quantitative CMR measures were extracted. Continuous variables with low heterogeneity were meta-analyzed using a random-effects model for overall effect size measured as the standard mean difference (SMD).

RESULTS: Available data from 25 studies reporting continuous quantitative 1.5-T CMR measures revealed that AM is most reliably differentiated from healthy controls using T1 mapping (SMD 1.80, p<0.01) and T2 mapping (SMD 1.63, p<0.01), respectively. All other measures examined including T2-weighted ratio, extracellular volume, early gadolinium enhancement ratio, right ventricular ejection fraction, and LV end-diastolic volume, mass, ejection fraction, longitudinal strain, circumferential strain, and radial strain also had discriminatory ability although with smaller standard mean difference values (|SMD| 0.32-0.96, p < 0.01 for all).

CONCLUSIONS: Meta-analysis shows that myocardial tissue characterization (T1 mapping>T2 mapping) followed by measures of left ventricular structure and function demonstrate diagnostic discriminatory ability in AM.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:363

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International journal of cardiology - 363(2022) vom: 15. Sept., Seite 225-239

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Khanna, Shaun [VerfasserIn]
Amarasekera, Anjalee T [VerfasserIn]
Li, Cindy [VerfasserIn]
Bhat, Aditya [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Henry H L [VerfasserIn]
Gan, Gary C H [VerfasserIn]
Ugander, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Timothy C [VerfasserIn]

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AU0V1LM3JT
Acute myocarditis
Cardiac MRI
Contrast Media
Gadolinium
Journal Article
Late gadolinium enhancement
Meta-Analysis
Non-invasive imaging
Non-ischemic myocardial injury
Review
Systematic Review
T1 and T2 mapping

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Date Completed 19.07.2022

Date Revised 24.09.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijcard.2022.06.047

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NLM342460390