Value of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in patients with Tako-Tsubo-like left ventricular dysfunction. |
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| Authors: | Anja G Deetjen Guido Conradi Susanne Mollmann Ali Rad Christian W Hamm Thorsten Dill |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Imaging, Kerckhoff-Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany. a.deetjen@kerckhoff-klinik.de |
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| Abstract: | We present gadolinium-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) in Tako-Tsubo-like left ventricular dysfunction showing the findings in acute phase and in follow-up. Gadolinium-enhanced CMRI allows to distinguish between myocardial infarction and other myocardial alterations, e.g., myocarditis. CMRI may thus permit to non-invasively identify patients with Tako-Tsubo syndrome by ruling out myocardial infarction or myocarditis in the setting of wall motion abnormalities (WMA). |
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