The Changing Complementary Role of Multimodality Imaging in Clinical Cardiology.

In the context of HCM, multimodality imaging conducted through different imaging techniques, such as echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, cardiac computed tomography and cardiac nuclear imaging, provides essential information for reaching a diagnosis, sudden cardiac death stratification and management [[5]]. This can be reached by applying an appropriate and selective approach to different imaging modalities, including rest and exercise stress echocardiography, speckle tracking echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance, computed tomography and nuclear scintigraphy [[28]]. Over the past two decades, major technological developments and progress have been reached for all imaging modalities applied to clinical cardiology, from echocardiography to magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear imaging, etc. Besides echocardiography, a multimodality of imaging complementary approaches to IE, including cardiac magnetic resonance, computed tomography or positron emission tomography in combination with computed tomography (PET-CT), has gained interest in recent years [[25], [27]], which could help reach a better understanding of the pathogenesis, clinical profile and outcomes in paediatric, adult and selective groups of IE [[25], [27]]. [Extracted from the article]