Delayed Myocardial Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Authors

  • Arie Franco
  • Saeed Javidi
  • Stefan G Ruehm

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.v9i6.2328

Keywords:

Delayed enhancement, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, MRI

Abstract

Delayed myocardial enhancement MRI is a highly valuable but non-specific imaging technique that is ancillary in the diagnosis of a variety of diseases including myocardial viability, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and other infiltrative myocardial processes. The lack of specificity stems from the wide variety of differential diagnoses that may present with overlapping patterns of delayed enhancement. Many of these differential diagnoses have been presented and discussed in this article.

Author Biographies

Arie Franco

Department of Radiology

Section of Diagnostic cardiovascular Imaging

Saeed Javidi

Drexel University College of Medicine

Stefan G Ruehm

Department of Radiology

Section of Diagnostic cardiovascular Imaging

Published

2015-06-10

Issue

Section

Cardiac Imaging