A case report in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: the contrast agent matters in amyloid
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Fontana, Marianna
Treibel, Thomas A.
Martinez-Naharro, Ana
Rosmini, Stefania
Gillmore, Julian D.
Hawkins, Philip N.
Moon, James C.
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Fontana, Marianna, Thomas A. Treibel, Ana Martinez-Naharro, Stefania Rosmini, Raymond Y. Kwong, Julian D. Gillmore, Philip N. Hawkins, and James C. Moon. 2017. “A case report in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: the contrast agent matters in amyloid.” BMC Medical Imaging 17 (1): 3. doi:10.1186/s12880-016-0173-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12880-016-0173-5.Abstract
Background: Cardiac amyloidosis is a progressive but underdiagnosed and underappreciated cause of heart failure. In the last few years, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become the gold standard for non invasive diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis with the characteristic subendocardial late gadolinium enhancement. Case presentation: We describe a case of a patient who, in the process of aligning protocols for a trial between different centers, had a paired study with two different contrast agents, Dotarem® and MultiHance®. MultiHance® surprisingly failed to demonstrate the characteristic imaging pattern, showing only non specific late gadolinium enhancement at the inferior right ventricular insertion point and different myocardial extracellular volume fraction compared to the one obtained with Dotarem®. MultiHance® is used by many centres, because its partial blood protein binding is a strength for MR angiography, but late gadolinium enhancement, particularly non-ischemic, appears to be compromised. Conclusions: This case report suggests that contrast agents should be selected with caution, especially with new therapies lining up for amyloid and CMR being used as exploratory end point in clinical trials. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12880-016-0173-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.Other Sources
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