1. Role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Endorsed by the Saudi Heart Association.
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Cardim N, Galderisi M, Edvardsen T, Plein S, Popescu BA, D'Andrea A, Bruder O, Cosyns B, Davin L, Donal E, Freitas A, Habib G, Kitsiou A, Petersen SE, Schroeder S, Lancellotti P, Camici P, Dulgheru R, Hagendorff A, Lombardi M, Muraru D, and Sicari R
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- Cardiac Imaging Techniques methods, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic therapy, Consensus, Echocardiography, Doppler methods, Echocardiography, Doppler standards, Europe, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine methods, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine standards, Male, Multimodal Imaging methods, Positron-Emission Tomography methods, Positron-Emission Tomography standards, Role, Saudi Arabia, Societies, Medical standards, Tomography, X-Ray Computed methods, Tomography, X-Ray Computed standards, Cardiac Imaging Techniques standards, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic diagnosis, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Multimodal Imaging standards, Practice Guidelines as Topic standards
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Taking into account the complexity and limitations of clinical assessment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), imaging techniques play an essential role in the evaluation of patients with this disease. Thus, in HCM patients, imaging provides solutions for most clinical needs, from diagnosis to prognosis and risk stratification, from anatomical and functional assessment to ischaemia detection, from metabolic evaluation to monitoring of treatment modalities, from staging and clinical profiles to follow-up, and from family screening and preclinical diagnosis to differential diagnosis. Accordingly, a multimodality imaging (MMI) approach (including echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac nuclear imaging) is encouraged in the assessment of these patients. The choice of which technique to use should be based on a broad perspective and expert knowledge of what each technique has to offer, including its specific advantages and disadvantages. Experts in different imaging techniques should collaborate and the different methods should be seen as complementary, not as competitors. Each test must be selected in an integrated and rational way in order to provide clear answers to specific clinical questions and problems, trying to avoid redundant and duplicated information, taking into account its availability, benefits, risks, and cost., (Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2015. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- 2015
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