Bruno Pinamonti • Gianfranco Sinagra
Editors

2014

This book was designed by the Editors as a thorough up-to-date review of the role of imaging in cardiomyopathies, based on the existing literature and on the authors’ working experience in the tertiary referral center on cardiomyopathies of the University Hospital of Trieste, Italy. Particular attention was given to the clinical significance of echocardiographic findings, as well as those derived from other imaging modalities, in the different groups of cardiomyopathies. Diagnostic, prognostic, and possible therapeutic implications of imaging data are considered.
Clinically important information achieved by both basic and advanced echocardiography (e.g. three-dimensional and speckle-tracking echocardiography) are examined. Additionally, the role of magnetic resonance imaging and other radiological and radionuclide cardiac imaging modalities was described.