A clinical dicussion of acute myocarditis behind the mask of myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries

• Svetlana A. Boldueva
• Dmitriy S. Evdokimov
• Larisa S. Evdokimova
• Maria G. Kolesnichenko
• Marina V. Rozhdestvenskaya

Abstract

The article presents a clinical case of acute viral myocarditis in a young patient manifested like myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries.

Keywords:myocarditis, coronary heart disease, magnetic resonance imaging

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