title: Radiology and pathology correlation in common infiltrative cardiomyopathies.
abstract: Infiltrative cardiomyopathies generally pose a diagnostic dilemma as current diagnostic tools are imprecise. Invasive endomyocardial biopsy is considered as the gold standard however it has some limitations. Recently cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is emerging as an excellent technique in diagnosing infiltrative cardiomyopathies and is increasingly being used. Characteristic pathologic and radiologic findings in most common infiltrative cardiomyopathies (amyloid, sarcoid and Fabry's) are discussed and correlated with relative CMR and histologic examples. There is fairly good correlation between the non-invasive radiologic and the invasive histologic findings in common infiltrative cardiomyopathies. Non-invasive CMR with its high sensitivity and specificity has an excellent role in establishing the diagnosis and improving the prognosis of common infiltrative cardiomyopathies.
authors.affiliation: Medical Imaging Department, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Neda
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Varzeshi
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rezaee
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Edwina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Duhig
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Slaughter
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic