Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of myocardial inflammation in 132 unselected, consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of acute or chronic myocarditis - are we as good as we thought?
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Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of myocardial inflammation in 132 unselected, consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of acute or chronic myocarditis are we as good as we thought? Philipp Lurz, Julia Murawski, Julia Steiner, Mahdi Sareban, Ingo Eitel, Steffen Desch, Georg Fuernau, Suzanne de Waha, Matthias Grothoff, Christian Luecke, Stephan Nitzsche, Gerhard Schuler, Matthias Gutberlet, Holger Thiele
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