Myocarditis - Diagnosis, treatment, use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and case report of a young athlete

Abstract

Myocarditis is defined as the inflammation of the myocardium. It is an illness with many different faces at the  time of clinical presentation or suspicion. The clinical presentation is highly variable ranging from asymptomatic to rapidly progressive and fatal congestive heart failure. Myocarditis accounts for 2-42% of sudden cardiac deaths in young adults based on the autopsy data (1). Use of cardiac magnetic resonance expanded the possibilities of the non-invasive assessment of myocardial inflammation and opened new ways for risk stratification of patients.