Jagat Narula a, 1, Y. Chandrashekhar b, 1, Amir Ahmadi a, Suhny Abbara c, Daniel S.
Berman d, Ron Blankstein e, Jonathon Leipsic f, David Newby g, Edward D. Nicol h, Koen …

Heart failure (HF) is an important cardiovascular disease because of its increasing
prevalence, significant morbidity, high mortality, and rapidly expanding health care cost. The …

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) was initially developed as a non-invasive diagnostic
tool to detect and quantify coronary stenosis. Thanks to the rapid technological …

Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of dual-energy CT with myocardial delayed
enhancement (MDE) in the detection and classification of myocardial scar in patients with …

In the past, the identification of myocardial fibrosis was only possible through invasive
histologic assessment. Although endomyocardial biopsy remains the gold standard, recent …

Modern advanced imaging techniques have allowed increasingly more rigorous
assessment of the cardiac structure and function of several types of cardiomyopathies. In …

Multimodality imaging is indicated for the evaluation of left ventricular (LV) myocardial
diseases. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) allows morphological and functional …

A large number of studies support the increasingly relevant prognostic value of the presence
and extent of delayed enhancement (DE), a surrogate marker of fibrosis, in diverse …

Imaging has a central role in the diagnosis, classification, and clinical management of
cardiomyopathies. While echocardiography is the first-line technique, given its wide …

Cardiomyopathies are a group of structural and/or functional myocardial disorders which
encompasses hypertrophic, dilated, arrhythmogenic, restrictive, and other cardiomyopathies …