Does a cardiac MRI model incorporating LGE parameters improve prediction of all-cause mortality compared to traditional risk factors in participants with ischemic cardiomyopathy?
A detailed cardiac MRI LGE model provides superior prognostic value for all-cause mortality over traditional risk factors in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.
A cardiac MRI model incorporating the ischemic late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) parameters of extent, transmurality, location, and midwall LGE significantly outperformed traditional risk factors in predicting all-cause mortality in participants with ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Unger et al. (Wed,) studied this question.