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[Myocardial Clefts - Incidental Findings in Parainfectious Myocarditis]
Florian Berger1, Christopher Hansi2, Tilo Niemann1
11 Institut für Radiologie, Kantonsspital Baden.
Abstract:
Myocardial Clefts - Incidental Findings in Parainfectious Myocarditis Abstract. We report a 23-year-old woman with parainfectious myocarditis due to gastroenteritis. A transthoracic echocardio-graphy revealed a recess in the left inferobasal ventricle. For further investigation, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was initiated, which revealed a myocardial cleft, a harmless structural variation of the heart. Cardiac magnetic resonance is a non-invasive imaging technique with a high spatial and temporal resolution that enables a precise depiction of the cardiac anatomy and therefore allows for a differentiation between normal and pathological structural variations of the heart.
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