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Review
. 2024 Jun;41(6):e15849.
doi: 10.1111/echo.15849.

Cardiac magnetic resonance in advanced heart failure

Francesca Coraducci  1 , Giulia De Zan  2 , Damiano Fedele  3   4 , Pietro Costantini  5 , Andrea Igoren Guaricci  6 , Anna Giulia Pavon  7 , Arco Teske  2 , Maarten Jan Cramer  2 , Lysette Broekhuizen  2 , Dirk Van Osch  2 , Ibrahim Danad  2 , Birgitta Velthuis  8 , Dominika Suchá  8 , Ivo van der Bilt  2   9 , Carmine Pizzi  3   4 , Antonio Dello Russo  1 , Marish Oerlemans  2 , Linda W van Laake  2 , Pim van der Harst  2 , Marco Guglielmo  2   9
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Review

Cardiac magnetic resonance in advanced heart failure

Francesca Coraducci et al. Echocardiography. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is a chronic and progressive disease that often progresses to an advanced stage where conventional therapy is insufficient to relieve patients' symptoms. Despite the availability of advanced therapies such as mechanical circulatory support or heart transplantation, the complexity of defining advanced HF, which requires multiple parameters and multimodality assessment, often leads to delays in referral to dedicated specialists with the result of a worsening prognosis. In this review, we aim to explore the role of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in advanced HF by showing how CMR is useful at every step in managing these patients: from diagnosis to prognostic stratification, hemodynamic evaluation, follow-up and advanced therapies such as heart transplantation. The technical challenges of scanning advanced HF patients, which often require troubleshooting of intracardiac devices and dedicated scans, will be also discussed.

Keywords: advanced heart failure; advanced multimodality cardiac imaging; cardiac magnetic resonance.

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