Abstract
#CardiacMagneticResonance (CMR) has a relevant role in
the comprehensive assessment of cardiac function, #morphology
and #myocardialcharacterization.The high spatial resolution
offers precise evaluation of cardiac volumes without #geometricassumptions and myocardial characterization of #edema, fat
infiltration and #fibrosis offers a sort of “in-vivo” virtual #pathology.
For these reasons the role of CMR imaging in the diagnostic workup
of cardiomyopathies has gained increasing relevance, improving
the assessment of many relevant issues as the etiology of sudden
cardiac arrest [1], the evidence and extension of myocardial fibrosis
in ischemic and non-ischemic #cardiomyopathies [2,3], the evidence
of fat and fibrotic infiltration in #arrhytmogeniccardiomyopathies
[4,5]. The relatively scarce literature supporting a prognostic value
of CMR imaging data is due to the short history of MR imaging in
cardiology. Recently, an increasing number of reports is supporting
the role of CMR data in the prognostic assessment of adverse
cardiac events in dilated cardiomyopathies, raising relevant clinical
and financial issues in the management of patients.
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