COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report

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.

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