title: Focal fibrosis in the left ventricle of subjects with cardiac amyloidosis evaluated by multislice computed tomography.
abstract: Cardiac amyloidosis is generally a progressive disease with a poor prognosis, so early diagnosis and appropriate treatments are important. Although cardiac amyloidosis can be diagnosed definitively by endomyocardial biopsy, non-invasive methods of diagnosis are desired because of a great risk in biopsy. In ECG-gated enhanced multislice computed tomography, not only clear images of the cardiac morphology but also the character of myocardium indicating fibrosis can be identified. We demonstrate two patients with cardiac amyloidosis who showed marked thickening of left ventricular wall with partial fibrotic changes by enhanced multislice computed tomography.
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mikami
authors.forename: Nobusada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Funabashi
authors.forename: Tsunetaka
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kijima
authors.forename: Masae
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uehara
authors.forename: Yumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shiina
authors.forename: Kwangho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Daimon
authors.forename: Nakabumi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Issei
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Komuro
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005355:Fibrosis; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed