Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis
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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive method of image that provides information about the anatomy, function and tissue characterization, becoming very useful in the diagnosis and differentiation of infiltrative disorders such as amyloidosis. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a restrictive cardiomyopathy result of amyloid deposition in the heart. MRI findings include myocardial hypertrophy with positive late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in the left ventricle (LV) associated with the altered kinetics of gadolinium and additional findings as pleural and pericardial effusion that support the diagnosis. We report the case of a patient diagnosed with amyloidosis showing the characteristic MR findings in this pathology
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