The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable clinical tool in everyday practice providing additional information to echocardiography. The late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique is now part of nearly every CMR protocol and enables in-vivo tissue characterization in ischemic (identificat...

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Main Authors: Karamitsos, T, Neubauer, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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description Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable clinical tool in everyday practice providing additional information to echocardiography. The late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique is now part of nearly every CMR protocol and enables in-vivo tissue characterization in ischemic (identification of scaring due to infarction) and many nonischemic cardiomyopathies (identification of regional or patchy fibrosis or infiltration). This review presents the evolving prognostic evidence base of LGE-CMR with a particular focus on nonischemic cardiomyopathies. Novel methods to assess diffuse myocardial fibrosis such as pre- and post-contrast T1-mapping are also discussed. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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spelling oxford-uuid:dfa07ba4-bb90-4d34-9378-8befc4932f172022-03-27T09:40:42ZThe prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRIJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:dfa07ba4-bb90-4d34-9378-8befc4932f17EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Karamitsos, TNeubauer, SCardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable clinical tool in everyday practice providing additional information to echocardiography. The late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) technique is now part of nearly every CMR protocol and enables in-vivo tissue characterization in ischemic (identification of scaring due to infarction) and many nonischemic cardiomyopathies (identification of regional or patchy fibrosis or infiltration). This review presents the evolving prognostic evidence base of LGE-CMR with a particular focus on nonischemic cardiomyopathies. Novel methods to assess diffuse myocardial fibrosis such as pre- and post-contrast T1-mapping are also discussed. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title_full The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title_fullStr The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title_full_unstemmed The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title_short The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement CMR in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac PET, CT, and MRI
title_sort prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement cmr in nonischemic cardiomyopathies topical collection on cardiac pet ct and mri
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