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Approximation of the Incidence of Myocarditis by Systematic Screening With Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Overview of attention for article published in JACC: Heart Failure, June 2018
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Title
Approximation of the Incidence of Myocarditis by Systematic Screening With Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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JACC: Heart Failure, June 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.jchf.2018.03.002
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Dimitri Patriki, Eva Gresser, Robert Manka, Maximilian Y Emmert, Thomas F Lüscher, Bettina Heidecker

Abstract

This study sought to obtain an approximation of the true incidence of myocarditis by systematic screening of patients at risk using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in a tertiary care center. Underdiagnosis of myocarditis and resulting uncertainty about its incidence remain a clinical dilemma. The authors hypothesized that systematic screening of patients presenting with angina-like symptoms, elevated troponin T, and no significant coronary artery disease using cardiac CMR will provide an approximation of the true incidence of myocarditis. The authors performed a retrospective chart review of patients presenting with angina-like symptoms and elevated high-sensitivity troponin T (TnT-hs ≥14 ng/l) in 2015 and 2016. During the year 2015, only patients with elevated TnT-hs, no significant coronary artery disease, and moderate-to-high clinical likelihood of myocarditis underwent CMR. Starting in 2016, CMR was obtained in patients with similar presentation, but independent of clinical likelihood of myocarditis. A total of 1,788 patients (74% male, age 69 ± 14 years) qualified for our analysis. In 2015, 521 patients presented with angina-like symptoms and TnT-hs elevation. In 2016, the number increased to 1,267 patients. Although in the year 2015, a total of 4 of 88 (5%) CMRs were positive for myocarditis, the percentage of positive CMRs doubled (26 of 199; 13%; p = 0.03) in 2016. A novel diagnostic screening algorithm led to a 6.3-fold increase of the incidence of myocarditis in our hospital. Furthermore, the percentage of CMRs positive for myocarditis doubled, supporting the diagnostic value of this method. Considering the potentially lethal adverse events of myocarditis if left untreated, we recommend a low threshold for the use of CMR in patients with angina-like symptoms and elevated TnT-hs after exclusion of coronary artery disease.

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Unknown 49 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 27%
Student > Master 7 14%
Other 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 15 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 47%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Sports and Recreations 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 18 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 October 2023.
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#11
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