Background: Patients with chest pain, elevated troponin, and unobstructed coronary disease present a clinical dilemma. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incremental diagnostic value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in a cohort of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and unobstructed coronary arteries.
Results: Data files of patients meeting the inclusion criteria in two cardiology centres were searched and analysed.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is currently understood as a group of diseases with left ventricular hypertrophy, which are not based on adaptive mechanisms. The first part of the review details the possibility of cardiac magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of sarcomeric forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the second part will focus on the possibilities of distinguishing the sarcomeric forms from their phenocopies.Key words: cardiac magnetic resonance - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - phenocopies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic cardiomyopathy in our population. The diagnosis of this disease is based on imaging methods, mainly echocardiography. Cardiac magnetic resonance offers more accurate and detailed information about the disease than echocardiography.
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