Search Tag: myocarditis
2023 15 Feb
According to a study published in the journal Vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines have not been linked to an increased risk of serious adverse events such as heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest, myocarditis, pericarditis, and deep vein thrombosis. The study, which was coordinated by Lamberto Manzoli, a medical epidemiologist and professor at the University...Read more
2020 04 Apr
In another COVID-19 special video presentation by the European Society of Cardiology, Prof. Alida Caforio of the University of Padova, Italy, answers some questions regarding COVID-19 and myocarditis. Is there such a thing as COVID-19 myocarditis? We have more than 300,000 subjects who have developed COVID-19, which is mainly pneumonia, which...Read more
2020 16 Jan
New findings show that radiomics and machine learning (ML) can be combined to help ascertain if late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiac MR images indicated myocardial infarction (MI) or myocarditis. You might also like: Machine Learning Improves Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis A study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic...Read more
2016 28 Nov
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging can be useful in the diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac inflammatory disorders, including infective endocarditis, pericarditis and myocarditis, according to results of a systematic review published by The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. See Also : PACIFIC Trial: Comparing...Read more