einstein (São Paulo). 20/Oct/2020;18:eRC5876.
COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report
Patrícia Yokoo
, Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes Fonseca
, Roberto Sasdelli Neto
, Walther Yoshiharu Ishikawa
, Murilo Marques Almeida Silva
, Elaine Yanata
, Rodrigo Caruso Chate
, Antonio Carlos Bacelar Nunes Filho
, Marcelo Bettega
, João Ricardo Cordeiro Fernandes
, Flávio Tarasoutchi
, Gilberto Szarf
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2020RC5876
ABSTRACT
A male patient with flu-like symptoms and tomography and laboratory diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome. He developed acute cardiac dysfunction during admission and was submitted to a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging examination, which confirmed acute myocarditis, indicating cardiac involvement by coronavirus disease 2019. A review and discussion about coronavirus disease 2019-related cardiac manifestations are reported, focusing on the imaging findings to make diagnosis.
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