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Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for Evaluation of Cardiac Involvement in COVID-19: Recommendations by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Vanessa M. Ferreira, University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR), Oxford British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, The National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Sven Plein, Department of Biomedical Imaging Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Timothy C. Wong, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
Qian Tao, Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, William Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Supriya S. Jain, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, New York, USA.
Yuchi Han, Cardiovascular Medicine, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
Vineeta Ojha, Department of Cardiovascular Radiology and Endovascular Interventions, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
David A. Bluemke, Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA.
Kate Hanneman, Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Jonathan Weinsaft, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.
Mahesh K. Vidula, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Ntobeko A. Ntusi, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital; Cape Heart Institute, University of Cape Town, South African Medical Research Council Extramural Unit On Intersection of Noncommunicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, a joint cooperation between Charité and MDC, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
Jiwon Kim, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA. jik9027@med.cornell.edu.

Author Type(s)

Faculty

Journal Title

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

First Page

21

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-27-2023

Department

Pediatrics

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that has affected nearly 600 million people to date across the world. While COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, cardiac injury is also known to occur. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is uniquely capable of characterizing myocardial tissue properties in-vivo, enabling insights into the pattern and degree of cardiac injury. The reported prevalence of myocardial involvement identified by CMR in the context of COVID-19 infection among previously hospitalized patients ranges from 26 to 60%. Variations in the reported prevalence of myocardial involvement may result from differing patient populations (e.g. differences in severity of illness) and the varying intervals between acute infection and CMR evaluation. Standardized methodologies in image acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of CMR abnormalities across would likely improve concordance between studies. This consensus document by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) provides recommendations on CMR imaging and reporting metrics towards the goal of improved standardization and uniform data acquisition and analytic approaches when performing CMR in patients with COVID-19 infection.

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