How is myocarditis diagnosed?
Myocarditis is diagnosed through a combination of symptoms, blood tests and advanced imaging. In this video, Dr Ravi Assomull, a Private Cardiologist in London, explains how ECGs, inflammatory markers and cardiac MRI confirm the diagnosis.
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Transcript
Myocarditis is diagnosed on the clinical history, so symptoms such as chest pain, palpitations, potentially preceded by a viral infection of some sort, and a combination of tests including an ECG blood test which will include markers of inflammation such as troponin, high sensitivity CRP, and critically a cardiac MRI which shows potential inflammation of the heart muscle
