{"id":1070,"date":"2022-05-13T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/2022\/05\/13\/letter-to-the-editor-cardiac-magnetic-resonance-imaging-of-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-multicenter-collection-of-27-cases\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:36:40","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-cardiac-magnetic-resonance-imaging-of-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-multicenter-collection-of-27-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/opinions\/letter-to-the-editor-cardiac-magnetic-resonance-imaging-of-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-multicenter-collection-of-27-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: &#8220;Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor in Chief,<\/p>\n<p>We would like to share ideas on \u201cCardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&#8221; [1].<\/p>\n<p>Di Dedda et al. concluded that \u201cWhile establishing a causal relationship between peri-myocardial inflammation and vaccine administration can be challenging, our clinical experience suggests that CMR should be performed for diagnosis confirmation and to drive clinical decision-making and follow-up&#8221; [1]. We agree that CMR is useful for diagnosis of cardiac problem. In studied cases, the vaccine recipients had cardiac problem but the problem might or might not be associated with COVID-19 vaccine. The CMR can diagnose cardiac pathological change but it cannot diagnose the cause. There is usually no data on previous vaccination cardiac status of the vaccine recipient [2]. Also, the concurrent medical problem might co-occur. For example, dengue might co-occur and cause cardiac problem in a COVID-19 vaccine recipient [2, 3].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor in Chief, We would like to share ideas on \u201cCardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&#8221; [1]. Di Dedda et al. concluded that \u201cWhile establishing a causal relationship between peri-myocardial inflammation and vaccine administration can be challenging, our clinical experience suggests that CMR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter to the Editor: &quot;Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&quot; - European Radiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/opinions\/letter-to-the-editor-cardiac-magnetic-resonance-imaging-of-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid-19-vaccination-a-multicenter-collection-of-27-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter to the Editor: &quot;Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&quot; - European Radiology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Editor in Chief, We would like to share ideas on \u201cCardiac magnetic resonance imaging of myocarditis and pericarditis following COVID-19 vaccination: a multicenter collection of 27 cases&#8221; [1]. 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