Role of Imaging in Evaluating Infiltrative Heart Disease.
Infiltrative heart disease is caused by the deposition of abnormal substances in the heart and can lead to abnormalities in cardiac function and electrical conduction. Advances in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging have allowed for improved diagnosis of infiltrative heart disease, as well as ways to track disease progression or regression, thus enabling a mechanism to follow response to therapy. In this review, we provide an overview of the role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) and cardiac amyloidosis (CA), as well as outline a proposed algorithm for using non-invasive cardiovascular imaging for evaluating these conditions.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Sanjay
S
Divakaran
Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Avinainder
A
Singh
Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.|Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Bradley
B
Collins
Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Tomas
T
Vita
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Rodney H
RH
Falk
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.|Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Marcelo F
MF
Di Carli
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. rblankstein@partners.org.|Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. rblankstein@partners.org.
Ron
R
Blankstein
Cardiac amyloidosis; Cardiovascular imaging; Imaging; Infiltrative heart disease