COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report
Patrícia Yokoo, Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes Fonseca, Roberto Sasdelli Neto, Walther Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Murilo Marques Almeida Silva, Elaine Yanata, Rodrigo Caruso Chate, Antonio Carlos Bacelar Nunes Filho, Marcelo Bettega, João Ricardo Cordeiro Fernandes, Flávio Tarasoutchi, Gilberto Szarf
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.