title: Role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Endorsed by the Saudi Heart Association.
abstract: Taking into account the complexity and limitations of clinical assessment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), imaging techniques play an essential role in the evaluation of patients with this disease. Thus, in HCM patients, imaging provides solutions for most clinical needs, from diagnosis to prognosis and risk stratification, from anatomical and functional assessment to ischaemia detection, from metabolic evaluation to monitoring of treatment modalities, from staging and clinical profiles to follow-up, and from family screening and preclinical diagnosis to differential diagnosis. Accordingly, a multimodality imaging (MMI) approach (including echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac nuclear imaging) is encouraged in the assessment of these patients. The choice of which technique to use should be based on a broad perspective and expert knowledge of what each technique has to offer, including its specific advantages and disadvantages. Experts in different imaging techniques should collaborate and the different methods should be seen as complementary, not as competitors. Each test must be selected in an integrated and rational way in order to provide clear answers to specific clinical questions and problems, trying to avoid redundant and duplicated information, taking into account its availability, benefits, risks, and cost.
authors: Nuno
authors: N
authors: Cardim
authors: Maurizio
authors: M
authors: Galderisi
authors: Thor
authors: T
authors: Edvardsen
authors: Sven
authors: S
authors: Plein
authors: Bogdan A
authors: BA
authors: Popescu
authors: Antonello
authors: A
authors: D'Andrea
authors: Oliver
authors: O
authors: Bruder
authors: Bernard
authors: B
authors: Cosyns
authors: Laurent
authors: L
authors: Davin
authors: Erwan
authors: E
authors: Donal
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Freitas
authors: Gilbert
authors: G
authors: Habib
authors: Anastasia
authors: A
authors: Kitsiou
authors: Steffen E
authors: SE
authors: Petersen
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Schroeder
authors: Patrizio
authors: P
authors: Lancellotti
authors: Paolo
authors: P
authors: Camici
authors: Raluca
authors: R
authors: Dulgheru
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Hagendorff
authors: Massimo
authors: M
authors: Lombardi
authors: Denisa
authors: D
authors: Muraru
authors: Rosa
authors: R
authors: Sicari
mesh_terms: D057791:Cardiac Imaging Techniques / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D032921:Consensus; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012380:Role; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards
keywords: Cardiac computed tomography; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Cardiac nuclear imaging; Echocardiography; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Multimodality imaging