Multi-modality imaging of cardiac amyloidosis: Contemporary update

Figure 3 Characteristic magnetic resonance findings of cardiac amyloidosis. A: Increased left ventricular wall thickness (asterisk) with trivial pericardial effusion (orange arrow) on steady state free precession; B: Delayed enhancement imaging (phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence) demonstrating diffusely abnormal, transmural late gadolinium enhancement in the myocardium; C and D: Native T1-mapping (using the modified look-locker inversion recovery sequence) at left ventricular (C) basal level short-axis slice and (D) color map at left ventricular mid level short-axis, showing significantly elevated native T1-values and consistent with interstitial fibrosis. Note that the imaging acquisition in this example was performed using a dedicated 3.0 Tesla machine.