COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report

Abstract

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

• Coronavirus
• COVID-19
• Coronavirus infections
• Myocarditis
• Cardiomyopathies
• Communicable diseases
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome
• Pneumonia
• Echocardiography
• Tomography, X-ray computed