T1 and T2 Mapping in  Nonischemic Cardiomyopathies and Agreement With Endomyocardial Biopsy

With interest we read the study by Lurz et  al.(1), investigating concordance between quantitative tissue characterization techniques and Lake Louise criteria in patients with myocarditis and endomyocardial biopsy. We would like to congratulate the authors for contributing an increasingly rare piece of evidence, as well as for performing multiple contrasts and contributing the histological correlate in a large number of patients. We would like to share a few further observations drawn from the presented data.

Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology - October 18, 2016 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research