20/Oct/2020
COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report
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.
Keywords: Cardiomyopathies; Communicable diseases; Coronavirus; Coronavirus infections; COVID-19; Echocardiography; Myocarditis; Pneumonia; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Tomography, x-ray computed