Journal
EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 603-609Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeu028
Keywords
Tomography; X-ray computed; Cardiomyopathies; Cardiovascular diseases; Magnetic resonance imaging; Echocardiography
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The imaging of myocardial disease is of increasing importance for cardiologists from all subspecialties, for diagnosis, risk stratification, or to facilitate therapy. While the gold standard modalities for such assessment are cardiac magnetic resonance and echocardiography, these are not universally suitable. Cardiac computed tomography (CT), well-established for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), can be of value in the assessment of myocardial pathology, due to excellent patient compatibility and tolerability, high spatial resolution, and acceptable tissue characterization. This review considers the value and limitations of CT in the assessment of the myocardial sequelae of CAD, and for patients with a variety of other cardiomyopathic diseases, depicts some of the common findings, and considers current developments in this area.
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