Key result
LGE on CMR proves essential for diagnosing LV involvement in biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
Why the study?
Does late gadolinium enhancement in cardiac magnetic resonance improve diagnosis and assessment of left ventricular involvement in biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy?
Case Report (n=1)
Does late gadolinium enhancement in cardiac magnetic resonance improve diagnosis and assessment of left ventricular involvement in biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy?
Cardiac magnetic resonance with late gadolinium enhancement is essential for diagnosing and assessing left ventricular involvement in atypical cases of biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
May support LGE-CMR for LV assessment in select biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy cases; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a classic form of chronic myocardial disease with a broad phenotypical spectrum. We report an atypical case of a patient with biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Although the current diagnosis criteria are the most widely accepted ones, they focus solely on the right ventricular phenotype. The use of late gadolinium enhancement in cardiac magnetic resonance in this patient was essential for the diagnosis and assessment of the left ventricular involvement extent. This tool allows a broader use of current diagnosis criteria for this disease.
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Augusto et al. (2016) conducted a case report in Biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (n=1). Late gadolinium enhancement in cardiac magnetic resonance was evaluated on Diagnosis and assessment of left ventricular involvement extent. Late gadolinium enhancement in cardiac magnetic resonance was essential for diagnosing and assessing the extent of left ventricular involvement in a patient with biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy.
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