Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging provides comprehensive assessment of myocardial anatomy, function, viability, and tissue characterization in patients with heart failure.
What is the role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of heart failure?
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is a comprehensive and highly accurate tool for diagnosing, monitoring, and determining the prognosis of patients with heart failure.
Noninvasive imaging plays a central role in the diagnosis of heart failure, assessment of prognosis, and monitoring of therapy. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) offers a comprehensive assessment of heart failure patients and is now the gold standard imaging technique to assess myocardial anatomy, regional and global function, and viability. Furthermore, it allows assessment of perfusion and acute tissue injury (edema and necrosis), whereas in nonischemic heart failure, fibrosis, infiltration, and iron overload can be detected. The information derived from CMR often reveals the underlying etiology of heart failure, and its high measurement accuracy makes it an ideal technique for monitoring disease progression and the effects of treatment. Evidence on the prognostic value of CMR-derived parameters in heart failure is rapidly emerging. This review summarizes the advantages of CMR for patients with heart failure and its important role in key areas.
Karamitsos et al. (Wed,) conducted a review in Heart failure. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) was evaluated. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging provides comprehensive assessment of myocardial anatomy, function, viability, and tissue characterization in patients with heart failure.
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