The Role of Cardiovascular Imaging in Pericardial, Myocardial and Vascular Inflammation
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2026 | Viewed by 169
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Interests: clinical cardiology; autoimmune diseases; non-ischemic cardiomyopathy; cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR)
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Dear Colleagues,
Pericardial, myocardial, and vascular inflammation and inflammatory cardiomyopathy constitute around 50% of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). These entities may be the result of infectious, toxic, or systemic autoimmune diseases. Their clinical expression varies from clinically silent to acute dramatic clinical presentation, such as fulminant myocarditis, acute vasculitis and/or arrhythmogenic inflammatory cardiomyopathy.
The contribution of cardiovascular imaging is of paramount importance for early, accurate diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment follow-up of cardiovascular diseases. A recent ESC position paper regarding these diseases further clarifies and emphasizes the role of CVD imaging in the evaluation of these entities.
In this Special Issue of JCM, we will present the role of various noninvasive imaging modalities, including echocardiography, nuclear techniques, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiovascular magnetic resonance, in the evaluation of inflammatory cardiovascular diseases, either autoimmune or non-autoimmune origin. It is our expectation that the publications presented in this Special Issue will be of value to clinical practices and will motivate future research in this field.
Dr. Sophie I. Mavrogeni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- inflammatory cardiovascular disease
- pericarditis
- myocarditis
- inflammatory cardiomyopathy
- echocardiography
- nuclear techniques
- cardiac computed tomography
- cardiovascular magnetic resonance
- arrhythmia
- heart failure
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