Detection of subclinical cardiac involvement in inflammatory myopathy by CMR T1 relaxometry
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Background While cardiac involvement including heart failure represents the first cause of mortality in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IM), subclinical alterations may be largely underdiagnosed by conventional tests. CMR T1 mapping may provide more sensitive diagnostic markers of cardiac involvement in both acute and chronic phases in IM irrespective of cardiac function or late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). Our aim was to determine the ability of CMR T1 relaxometry derived parameters to detect subclinical cardiac involvement in IM.
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