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A noninvasive diagnostic tool to differentiate myocarditis from myocardial infarction: late gadolinium enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance

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Studies in adults have shown that late gadolinium enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance is a safe and noninvasive diagnostic tool which allows one to differentiate myocardial infarction from myocarditis. We believe that it may also be highly useful in the paediatric population for the same purpose.

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  1. Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Center, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Rue du Bugnon 46, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland

    Yvan Mivelaz, Nicole Sekarski, Erik Jan Meijboom & Stefano Di Bernardo

  2. Radiology, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases Center, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Salah Dine Qanadli

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Mivelaz, Y., Sekarski, N., Qanadli, S.D. et al. A noninvasive diagnostic tool to differentiate myocarditis from myocardial infarction: late gadolinium enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance. Eur J Pediatr 166, 971–972 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-006-0328-4

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