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Heart muscle and perfusion – assessed without X-rays.
Some symptoms remain unexplained even though ECG, ultrasound and even cardiac CT or catheter are unremarkable. Cardiac MRI shows what these methods do not see: an inflammation of the heart muscle and perfusion disorders down to the smallest vessels – radiation-free and at rest.
Important: Sudden, severe chest pain – especially with shortness of breath, cold sweat or pain radiating into the arm, neck or upper abdomen – can be a heart attack. Please call the emergency services on 112 immediately.
After a viral infection, with a drop in performance, palpitations or chest pressure, cardiac MRI can make a myocarditis visible or rule it out according to international criteria.¹
When cardiac CT or catheter are unremarkable but the symptoms persist, the cause often lies in the smallest vessels. Stress MRI makes such perfusion disorders visible.²
Cardiac MRI works with magnetic fields instead of X-rays. In one examination, both the heart muscle itself and its perfusion – at rest and under stress – can be assessed.
Modern examination techniques capture water retention and tissue change in the heart muscle – the basis for confirming or ruling out a myocarditis.
Through contrast enhancement, scarred or fibrotic areas become visible – for example after a previous infarction or a past inflammation.
In stress MRI, the heart's perfusion is stressed pharmacologically and measured – without physical exertion. This makes narrowings and reduced perfusion visible.³
Stress MRI also captures microvascular perfusion disorders (INOCA) that cardiac catheter and cardiac CT do not show – often the decisive answer with persistent symptoms.²
If you have symptoms, there is a reason. Our task is to find it.
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The scan is performed in a modern, open and short MRI – comfortable even with claustrophobia. For stress MRI and tissue imaging, a contrast agent is given via the arm vein.
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Not every heart complaint has to do with narrowed coronary arteries. At the same time, a narrowing of the coronary arteries by deposits (= CAD = coronary artery disease) often develops unnoticed over a long period: in 2026 a large imaging study already found vascular deposits in around 57 % of symptom-free adults.⁸ An inflammation of the heart muscle can occur after a simple viral infection and often goes unrecognised with ECG and ultrasound – cardiac MRI is considered the non-invasive gold standard for diagnosing inflammation of the heart muscle and confirms or rules it out according to internationally agreed criteria.¹ And a considerable proportion of people with persistent symptoms have unremarkable coronary arteries: the cause then often lies in the smallest vessels (INOCA), which catheter and cardiac CT do not show.² Especially in women, INOCA is an important issue that must always be considered – it is particularly easily missed in standard diagnostics. Stress perfusion MRI makes such perfusion disorders visible without radiation and is well established as a method for ischaemia diagnosis.³ So that no one is sent home with serious symptoms just because the standard examination was unremarkable. Whether cardiac MRI makes sense in your case is something we clarify together according to your individual situation.