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.

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 / Cardim, Nuno; Galderisi, Maurizio; Edvardsen, Thor; Plein, Sven; Popescu, Bogdan A; D'Andrea, Antonello; Bruder, Oliver; Cosyns, Bernard; Davin, Laurent; Donal, Erwan; Freitas, Antonio; Habib, Gilbert; Kitsiou, Anastasia; Petersen, Steffen E; Schroeder, Stephen; Lancellotti, Patrizio; Camici, Paolo; Dulgheru, Raluca; Hagendorff, Andreas; Lombardi, Massimo; Muraru, Denisa; Sicari, Rosa. - In: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING. - ISSN 2047-2404. - 16:3(2015), pp. 280-280. [10.1093/ehjci/jeu291]

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

GALDERISI, MAURIZIO;
2015

Abstract

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.
2015
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 / Cardim, Nuno; Galderisi, Maurizio; Edvardsen, Thor; Plein, Sven; Popescu, Bogdan A; D'Andrea, Antonello; Bruder, Oliver; Cosyns, Bernard; Davin, Laurent; Donal, Erwan; Freitas, Antonio; Habib, Gilbert; Kitsiou, Anastasia; Petersen, Steffen E; Schroeder, Stephen; Lancellotti, Patrizio; Camici, Paolo; Dulgheru, Raluca; Hagendorff, Andreas; Lombardi, Massimo; Muraru, Denisa; Sicari, Rosa. - In: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL. CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING. - ISSN 2047-2404. - 16:3(2015), pp. 280-280. [10.1093/ehjci/jeu291]
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