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Education in Heart
State of the art: multimodality imaging in dilated cardiomyopathy
  1. Brian P Halliday1,2
  1. 1 CMR Unit and Inherited Cardiac Conditions Care Group, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, UK
  2. 2 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Brian P Halliday, CMR Unit and Inherited Cardiac Conditions Care Group, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, London, UK; b.halliday{at}rbht.nhs.uk

Abstract

Dilated cardiomyopathy represents a common phenotype expressed in individuals with a family of overlapping myocardial diseases due to acquired and/or genetic susceptibility. Disease trajectory, response to therapy and outcomes vary widely; therefore, further refinement of the diagnosis can help guide therapy and inform prognosis. Multimodality imaging plays a key role in this process, as well as excluding alternative causes which may mimic a primary myocardial disease. The following article discusses the role of different imaging modalities as well as what the future may look like in the context of recent research innovations.

  • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
  • Cardiac Imaging Techniques

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321116

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    • Contributors BHP is the sole contributor to this article.

    • Funding BPH is supported by a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship (FS/ICRF/20/26019) and the Rosetrees Trust.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Author note References which include a * are considered to be key references.