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Detection of myocardial inflammation in Chagas' disease by cardiac magnetic resonance

2013; BioMed Central; Volume: 15; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1532-429x-15-s1-m12

ISSN

1532-429X

Autores

Jorge Andion Torreão, Evandro Naia, Carlos H Rassi, José R. Parga, Luis Francisco Ávila, César Higa Nomura, Bárbara Maria Ianni, Charles Mady, Roberto Kalil Filho, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte,

Tópico(s)

Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies

Resumo

Methods Fifty-four patients with CD were analyzed, 16 patients in the indeterminate form (IND), 17 patients with the cardiac form without systolic dysfunction (CF), and 21 patients with the cardiac form with systolic dysfunction (CFSD). All patients underwent 1.5-T cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) using three pulse sequences, previously described as useful for the diagnosis of viral myocarditis: the myocardial delayed enhancement (MDE) technique, Triple-IR FSE T2-weighted sequence and the T1 weighted global enhancement acquired before and after contrast injection, to identify fibrosis, edema and hyperemia of the myocardium, respectively. The parameters for all sequences followed precisely the recommendations for acute myocarditis published on JACC White Paper (Friedrich et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Apr 28;53(17):1475-87).

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