Doerner J, et al. - Researchers assessed the incremental diagnostic value of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) derived atrial and ventricular strain-analysis in patients with acute myocarditis (myocarditis) as an additional tool to established Lake-Louise criteria (LCC). For this investigation, an aggregate of 86 patients with clinically proven myocarditis and 30 healthy controls underwent a comprehensive CMR protocol. Including those with preserved LV function, combining quantitative CMR derived atrial and ventricular strain parameters with established LLC parameters could improve the diagnostic performance in patients with suspected myocarditis.

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