title: MR findings in cardiac amyloidosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of our study was to describe a combination of features on MRI specific to cardiac amyloidosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cardiac amyloidosis is a common cause of infiltrative heart disease. The combination of subtle widespread heterogeneous myocardial enhancement on delayed postcontrast inversion recovery T1-weighted images, which may initially be dismissed as a technical error, with ancillary features of restrictive cardiac disease is highly suggestive of cardiac amyloidosis.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular MR Research Centre, Prince Charles Hospital, Rode Rd., Chermside, Brisbane, QLD Q4032, Australia.
authors.forename: Rohan I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: vanden Driesen
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Slaughter
authors.forename: Wendy E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Strugnell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies