articleCirculationJan 4, 2005GREEN OA

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Cardiac Amyloidosis

The Royal Free Hospital · Royal Brompton Hospital · +3 more institutions

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BACKGROUND: Cardiac amyloidosis can be diagnostically challenging. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can assess abnormal myocardial interstitium. METHODS AND RESULTS: Late gadolinium enhancement CMR was performed in 30 patients with cardiac amyloidosis. In 22 of these, myocardial gadolinium kinetics with T1 mapping was compared with that in 16 hypertensive controls. One patient had CMR and autopsy only. Subendocardial T1 in amyloid patients was shorter than in controls (at 4 minutes: 427+/-73 versus 579+/-75 ms; P

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