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Filter by:Primary myocardial involvement is common in scleroderma, effected to pericardium, vascular, conducting defect and especially myocardium. Cardiac MRI is widely used for assessment of cardiac involvement in scleroderma, both structural and functional pathology. Cardiac MRI has a diagnostic accuracy of 85% for the detection of myocardial inflammation. Nowadays, the treatment of myocardial inflammation in scleroderma is uncertain. The investigator's study aims to define the cardiac outcome after moderate dose steroid therapy in the patients who have myocardial inflammation detection by cardiac MRI.
Presentation of myocarditis is heterogeneous, often ranges from being asymptomatic, to chest pain, dyspnoea, palpitations, and even sudden cardiac death. Diagnosing myocarditis is challenging with no current uniform clinical gold-standard. CMR is a key investigative tool, however the predictive value of CMR features is unknown. In this study we assess 670 consecutive patients with suspected myocarditis who were referred for CMR between 2002 and 2015 at the BWH. CMR features such as late gadolinium sizing, T1 mapping, extracellular volume fraction assessment, strain analysis (feature tracking), clinical data, labortory tetsings and electrocardiogramm are linked to the outcome in order to assess its predictive value.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) might have high grade immune-related adverse events (irAEs) on the cardio-vascular system. This study investigates reports of cardio-vascular toxicity with treatment including anti-PD1, Anti-PDL-1, and Anti CTLA4 classes using the World Health Organization (WHO) database VigiBase.
Infectious myocarditis are frequent, most of the time viral and can evolve to cardiac insufficiency. The diagnosis is difficult because they can mime an acute coronary syndrome. Approximately 10 % of patients with acute infarction suspected, have a normal angiography, and half of them has in fact a myocarditis, as showed studies of cardiac MRI among which some realized in our department . However, anomalies observed in MRI are not specific and it is necessary to use multiple criterions. A new radiopharmaceutical, the 68Ga-DOTATOC, specific of somatostatin's receptors which are over expressed by the inflammatory cells, has recently showed the capacity to identify myocarditis, but only in a small group of 6 patients. The investigators make assumptions: 1. this radiopharmaceutical is enough sensitive to detect most of the acute inflammatory myocarditis which are identified by the MRI and 2. it could maybe allow to identify myocarditis with a persistent subacute or chronic inflammation, which are difficult to identify with cardiac MRI, and it would be a new information able to guide the medical decision. Primary objectif: to determine if PET with 68Ga-DOTATOC is enough sensitive to identify myocarditis in acute inflammatory phase by hospitalized patients with suspected acute infarction and with normal angiography and who have a high probability of myocarditis identified by MRI. Disease prevalence will be close to 100 % at baseline Secondary objectives: 1. Estimate the frequency of inflammatory forms (subacute or chronicle), with a 68Ga-DOTATOC PET at 3 to 5 months from baseline, when classic signs of acute inflammatory generally disappeared (CRP, Troponin-I, myocardial oedema in MRI). 2. Analyze the concordance of the results of 68Ga-DOTATOC TEP by two readers
The investigators performed a retrospective, single-center observational study, and the participants with acute fulminant myocarditis were included.Then, the investigator analyzed the risk factors of in-hospital death in these participants with acute fulminant myocarditis.
There is no specific treatment of acute myocarditis, especially during the inflammatory period. Interleukin (IL) is specifically involved during this period and play a role in myocardial oedema. ANAKINRA, an IL-1β Blocker, is a new treatment that has never been evaluated in myocarditis. The benefit for the patient could be important with a reduction of heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias. Hypothesis : ANAKINRA in addition to standard therapy for treatment of Acute Myocarditis is superior to standard therapy based on an association of beta-blockers and Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme inhibitor (ACE).
Acute myocarditis is a serious illness affecting a young population with a very variable course (of full recovery at the onset of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), or even sudden death). Very few studies have examined the predictors of death and serious cardiovascular events in acute myocarditis and have carried on numbers of restricted patients. What little data results in a lack of a precise recommendation on the management and the follow-up period of patients. This observational study should identify serious prognostic factor for cardiovascular events in order to provide a support strategy and more appropriate monitoring of myocarditis.
To non-invasively image myocardial accumulation of ultrasmall superparamagnetic particles of iron oxide (USPIOs) by an increase in R2* values (compared to controls) within the myocardium of patients with: i. cardiac transplantation ii. acute myocarditis iii. suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) is an established noninvasive diagnostic tool for detection of acute myocarditis. Diagnosis of myocarditis at 1.5T is currently made with the help of the Lake Louise Criteria (two of three criteria have to be positive in order to establish the diagnosis). Although these criteria are accepted and widely used in clinical routine, several disadvantages exist. Newer parameters like myocardial T1 and T2 mapping, extracellular volume fraction (ECV) and myocardial strain analysis have the potential to complement or even replace some of the Lake Louise Criteria and further enhance the diagnostic performance of cardiac MR in patients suspected of having acute myocarditis. The aim of our study is to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a comprehensive cardiac MR protocol in patients with acute myocarditis.
The purpose of this study is the assess the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with suspected myocarditis by applying different imaging sequences at different MR scanners