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Cardiac amyloidosis: Diagnosis using delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging sequences
- Source :
- Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Vol 32, Iss 11, Pp 941-945 (2013), Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition), Vol 32, Iss 11, Pp 941-945 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- i p a t a m s r Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is very useful in distinguishing between myocardial infarction, in which the enhancement is typically subendocardial, and myocarditis, in which it is subepicardial (Figure 1). In addition, various patterns have been described with different cardiomyopathies, in some cases enabling a specific diagnosis without invasive workup and risk stratification.1 Cardiac amyloidosis was previously thought to be present only when systemic amyloidosis was patently manifest. This has proved not to be the case, with cardiac MRI detecting increasing numbers of cases in patients with diastolic heart failure in whom cardiac
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Myocarditis
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Diastolic heart failure
Delayed enhancement
medicine.disease
Cardiac amyloidosis
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
lcsh:RC666-701
Internal medicine
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Late gadolinium enhancement
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Medicine
In patient
Radiology
Myocardial infarction
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
General Environmental Science
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21742049
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....57ab7d9a2282690c6e65e0104c572270