Pasquale Paolisso, Luca Bergamaschi, Francesco Angeli, Marta Belmonte, Alberto Foà, Lisa Canton, Damiano Fedele, Matteo Armillotta, Angelo Sansonetti, Francesca Bodega, Sara Amicone, Nicole Suma, Emanuele Gallinoro, Domenico Attinà, Fabio Niro, Paola Rucci, Elisa Gherbesi, Stefano Carugo, Saima Musthaq, Andrea Baggiano, Anna Giulia Pavon, Marco Guglielmo, Edoardo Conte, Daniele Andreini, Gianluca Pontone, Luigi Lovato, Carmine Pizzi
BACKGROUND: Multimodality imaging is currently suggested for the noninvasive diagnosis of cardiac masses. The identification of cardiac masses' malignant nature is essential to guide proper treatment. We aimed to develop a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)-derived model including mass localization, morphology, and tissue characterization to predict malignancy (with histology as gold standard), to compare its accuracy versus the diagnostic echocardiographic mass score, and to evaluate its prognostic ability...
March 2024: Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging