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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance to Reclassify Diagnosis and Detect Cardiomyopathies in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Presentation.

Theodoros Tsampras, Alexios Antonopoulos, Alexandros Kasiakogias, Alexia Mika, Antonia Kolovou, Eleni Papadimitriou, George Lazaros, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Charalambos Vlachopoulos

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Theodoros Tsampras1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0004-0841-1688
Alexios Antonopoulos1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Alexandros Kasiakogias1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1090-4965
Alexia MikaRadiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Antonia KolovouRadiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Eleni PapadimitriouRadiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece.
George Lazaros1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2802-9617
Konstantinos Tsioufis1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7636-6725
Charalambos Vlachopoulos1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9904-3558

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backgroundCardiomyopathies are a significant cause of heart failure, arrhythmia, and cardiac morbidity in the general population. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a valuable tool for the diagnostic work-up of patients with acute cardiac events.

objectivesThis study evaluated the diagnostic value of CMR and the yield of cardiomyopathies in hospitalized cardiac patients with acute presentation.

methodsA retrospective analysis was conducted with 535 consecutive hospitalized patients who underwent CMR at Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece, to identify a subset of scans performed on an urgent basis of hospitalized patients. Demographic data, causes of admission, CMR findings, and plasma cardiac biomarkers (hs-Troponin I, NT-proBNP, and CRP) were systematically recorded.

resultsOut of the initial 535 CMR scans evaluated, a further analysis was conducted with 104 patients who were in hospital and underwent CMR on an urgent basis. From the total population of hospitalized patients, 33% had CMR findings indicative of underlying cardiomyopathy, with dilated cardiomyopathy being the most common subtype (36%), followed by arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (27%), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (15%), or other subtypes (e.g., cardiac amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, endomyocardial fibrosis, EGPA, or unclassified). CMR led to the reclassification of the initial diagnosis into that of underlying cardiomyopathy in 32% of cases. The highest reclassification rate was observed within the subgroup with heart failure (71%), followed by that of acute myocardial infarction/ischemic heart disease (24%) and myocarditis (22%).

conclusionsCMR imaging effectively contributed to the differential diagnosis of hospitalized patients with acute cardiac events that remained without a definitive diagnosis after their initial work-up and uncovered underlying cardiomyopathy in almost one-third of this cohort.

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cardiomyopathycardiovascular magnetic resonanceheart failuremyocardial infarctionmyocarditis

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