Acute coronary syndrome versus acute myocarditis in young adults-value of speckle tracking echocardiography.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Comparing myocarditis with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS)-like presentation and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) poses an important clinical challenge. The purpose of the study was to investigate the diagnostic value of the clinical, laboratory and especially echocardiographic characteristics including speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) of patients with ACS-like myocarditis and AMI.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis comparing 69 symptomatic patients (≤ 45 years old), hospitalized at the Department of Interventional Cardiology (Medical University of Lodz, Poland) between April 2014 and June 2021 with an initial diagnosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

Results

37 patients with the cardiac magnetic resonance-confirmed acute myo

SUBMITTER: Wieczorkiewicz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9359587 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature