Recognizing COVID-19-related myocarditis: The possible pathophysiology and proposed guideline for diagnosis and management.

ABSTRACT: Human coronavirus-associated myocarditis is known, and a number of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)-related myocarditis cases have been reported. The pathophysiology of COVID-19-related myocarditis is thought to be a combination of direct viral injury and cardiac damage due to the host's immune response. COVID-19 myocarditis diagnosis should be guided by insights from previous coronavirus and other myocarditis experience. The clinical findings include changes in electrocardiogram and cardiac biomarkers, and impaired cardiac function. When cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is not feasible, cardiac computed tomographic angiography with delayed myocardial imaging may serve to exclude significant coronary artery disease and identify myocardial inflammatory patterns. Because many COVID-19 pat

SUBMITTER: Siripanthong B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7199677 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature