title: Delayed Myocardial Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
abstract: Delayed myocardial enhancement MRI is a highly valuable but non-specific imaging technique that is ancillary in the diagnosis of a variety of diseases including myocardial viability, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis and other infiltrative myocardial processes. The lack of specificity stems from the wide variety of differential diagnoses that may present with overlapping patterns of delayed enhancement. Many of these differential diagnoses have been presented and discussed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Arie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Franco
authors.affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Saeed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Javidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Stefan G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Ruehm
mesh_terms: D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis; D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D017681:Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media
keywords: Delayed enhancement; MRI; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging