Key result
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides a comprehensive, non-invasive assessment of cardiac anatomy, function, and tissue characterization, playing a central role in evaluating cardiomyopathies.
CMR is a highly versatile and essential non-invasive imaging modality for the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and monitoring of various cardiomyopathies.
Reinforces CMR's central role in cardiomyopathy assessment; leaves open need for prospective outcome trials before broader adoption.
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging plays a central role in the assessment and monitoring of patients with cardiomyopathy. It offers a comprehensive assessment during a single scan setting, with information on ventricular volumes, function and mass as well as tissue characterisation, fibrosis, flow, viability and perfusion. Acute tissue injury (oedema and necrosis) can be distinguished from fibrosis, infiltration and iron overload. It provides information on the cause and prognosis of the cardiomyopathy, and its high measurement accuracy makes it ideal for monitoring disease progression and effects of therapy. The present review highlights the main features of commonly encountered cardiomyopathies in imaging practice.
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Moosa et al. (2016) conducted a review in Cardiomyopathy. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) was evaluated. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides a comprehensive, non-invasive assessment of cardiac anatomy, function, and tissue characterization, playing a central role in evaluating cardiomyopathies.
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