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Case Reports
. 2006 Jul-Aug;29(4):710-2.
doi: 10.1007/s00270-004-0162-x.

Cardiac amyloidosis: typical imaging findings and diffuse myocardial damage demonstrated by delayed contrast-enhanced MRI

Eijun Sueyoshi  1 , Ichiro Sakamoto, Tomoaki Okimoto, Kuniaki Hayashi, Kyouei Tanaka, Genji Toda
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Cardiac amyloidosis: typical imaging findings and diffuse myocardial damage demonstrated by delayed contrast-enhanced MRI

Eijun Sueyoshi et al. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2006 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

Amyloidosis is a rare systemic disease. However, involvement of the heart is a common finding and is the most frequent cause of death in amyloidosis. We report the sonographic, scintigraphic, and MRI features of a pathologically proven case of cardiac amyloidosis. Delayed contrast-enhanced MR images, using an inversion recovery prepped gradient-echo sequence, revealed diffuse enhancement in the wall of both left and right ventricles. This enhancement suggested expansion of the extracellular space of the myocardium caused by diffuse myocardial necrosis secondary to deposition of amyloid.

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