Vincenzo Castiglione, Alberto Aimo, Giancarlo Todiere, Andrea Barison, Iacopo Fabiani, Giorgia Panichella, Dario Genovesi, Lucrezia Bonino, Alberto Clemente, Filippo Cademartiri, Alberto Giannoni, Claudio Passino, Michele Emdin, Giuseppe Vergaro
Imaging has a central role in the diagnosis, classification, and clinical management of cardiomyopathies. While echocardiography is the first-line technique, given its wide availability and safety, advanced imaging, including cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), nuclear medicine and CT, is increasingly needed to refine the diagnosis or guide therapeutic decision-making. In selected cases, such as in transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis or in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, the demonstration of histological features of the disease can be avoided when typical findings are observed at bone-tracer scintigraphy or CMR, respectively...
2023: Cardiac Failure Review