Incremental Utility of First-Pass Perfusion CMR for Prognostic Risk Stratification of Cancer-Associated Cardiac Masses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) differentiates cardiac metastasis (C_MET) and cardiac thrombus (C_THR) based on tissue characteristics stemming from vascularity on late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). Perfusion CMR can assess magnitude of vascularity; utility for cardiac masses (C_MASS) is unknown.

Objectives

This study sought to determine if perfusion CMR provides diagnostic and prognostic utility for C_MASS beyond binary differentiation of C_MET and C_THR.

Methods

The population comprised adult cancer patients with C_MASS on CMR; C_MET and C_THR were defined using LGE-CMR: C_MASS+ patients were matched to C_MASS- control subjects for cancer type/st

SUBMITTER: Chan AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11783222 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature