2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis Developed by the task force for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Jeanette Schulz-Menger; Valentino Collini; Jan Groschel; Yehuda Adler; Antonio Brucato; Vanessa Christian; Vanessa M. Ferreira; Estelle Gandjbakhch; Bettina Heidecker; Mathieu Kerneis; Allan L. Klein; Karin Klingel; George Lazaros; Roberto Lorusso; Elena G. Nesukay; Kazem Rahimi; Arsen D. Ristic; Marcin Rucinski; Leyla Elif Sade; Hannah Schaubroeck; Anne Grete Semb; Gianfranco Sinagra; Jens Jakob Thune; Massimo Imazio

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf192

2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis Developed by the task force for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Jeanette Schulz-Menger^*, Valentino Collini, Jan Groschel, Yehuda Adler, Antonio Brucato, Vanessa Christian, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Estelle Gandjbakhch, Bettina Heidecker, Mathieu Kerneis, Allan L. Klein, Karin Klingel, George Lazaros, Roberto Lorusso, Elena G. Nesukay, Kazem Rahimi, Arsen D. Ristic, Marcin Rucinski, Leyla Elif Sade, Hannah SchaubroeckAnne Grete Semb, Gianfranco Sinagra, Jens Jakob Thune, Massimo Imazio^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	ehaf192
Pages (from-to)	3952-4041
Number of pages	90
Journal	European Heart Journal
Volume	46
Issue number	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf192
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2025

Keywords

Guidelines
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
Myopericarditis
Perimyocarditis
Diagnosis
Therapy
Echocardiography
Cardiac magnetic resonance
Multimodality imaging
Endomyocardial biopsy
CARDIAC MAGNETIC-RESONANCE
LATE GADOLINIUM ENHANCEMENT
GIANT-CELL MYOCARDITIS
EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE-OXYGENATION
POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY
LEFT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION
TERM-FOLLOW-UP
TUBERCULOUS CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS
IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES
CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR THERAPY

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Schulz-Menger, J., Collini, V., Groschel, J., Adler, Y., Brucato, A., Christian, V., Ferreira, V. M., Gandjbakhch, E., Heidecker, B., Kerneis, M., Klein, A. L., Klingel, K., Lazaros, G., Lorusso, R., Nesukay, E. G., Rahimi, K., Ristic, A. D., Rucinski, M., Sade, L. E., ... Imazio, M. (2025). 2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis Developed by the task force for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). European Heart Journal, 46(40), 3952-4041. Article ehaf192. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf192

Schulz-Menger, Jeanette ; Collini, Valentino ; Groschel, Jan et al. / 2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis Developed by the task force for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). In: European Heart Journal. 2025 ; Vol. 46, No. 40. pp. 3952-4041.

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Schulz-Menger J, Collini V, Groschel J, Adler Y, Brucato A, Christian V et al. 2025 ESC Guidelines for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis Developed by the task force for the management of myocarditis and pericarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). European Heart Journal. 2025 Oct 22;46(40):3952-4041. ehaf192. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf192