Cardiovascular magnetic resonance for evaluation of cardiac involvement in COVID-19
recommendations by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Vanessa M. Ferreira (University of Oxford)
Sven Plein (University of Leeds)
Timothy C. Wong
Qian Tao (TU Delft - ImPhys/Tao group)
Zahra Raisi-Estabragh (Queen Mary University of London)
Supriya S. Jain (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Yuchi Han (The Ohio State University)
Vineeta Ojha (All India Institute of Medical Sciences)
Jiwon Kim (Weill Cornell Medical College)
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global pandemic that has affected nearly 600 million people to date across the world. While COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, cardiac injury is also known to occur. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is uniquely capable of characterizing myocardial tissue properties in-vivo, enabling insights into the pattern and degree of cardiac injury. The reported prevalence of myocardial involvement identified by CMR in the context of COVID-19 infection among previously hospitalized patients ranges from 26 to 60%. Variations in the reported prevalence of myocardial involvement may result from differing patient populations (e.g. differences in severity of illness) and the varying intervals between acute infection and CMR evaluation. Standardized methodologies in image acquisition, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of CMR abnormalities across would likely improve concordance between studies. This consensus document by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) provides recommendations on CMR imaging and reporting metrics towards the goal of improved standardization and uniform data acquisition and analytic approaches when performing CMR in patients with COVID-19 infection.
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