"prognostic value: increased risk of sudden cardiac death 6,7, especially if extensive or diffuse (>15% wall mass) 10"
"Late gadolinium enhancement is also known under the terms ‘late enhancement’ or ‘delayed enhancement’."
"Late gadolinium enhancement is a result of regional differences in myocardial extracellular volume and different uptake and washout patterns within the extracellular space and is seen in myocardial injury e.g. myocyte necrosis, myocardial oedema, myocardial scar tissue, and focal areas of fibrosis, and can be related to different cardiac diseases regarding its distribution and other tissue properties and clinical parameters 6."
"Late gadolinium enhancement is a result of regional differences in myocardial extracellular volume and different uptake and washout patterns within the extracellular space and is seen in myocardial injury e.g. myocyte necrosis, myocardial oedema, myocardial scar tissue, and focal areas of fibrosis, and can be related to different cardiac diseases regarding its distribution and other tissue properties and clinical parameters 6."
"Image acquisition for late gadolinium enhancement is usually conducted with an inversion recovery prepared T1-weighted gradient echo and either manually adapted inversion time or as a PSIR sequence with a phase-sensitive inversion-recovery based reconstruction algorithm 1-4."
"Late gadolinium enhancement is a result of regional differences in myocardial extracellular volume and different uptake and washout patterns within the extracellular space and is seen in myocardial injury e.g. myocyte necrosis, myocardial oedema, myocardial scar tissue, and focal areas of fibrosis, and can be related to different cardiac diseases regarding its distribution and other tissue properties and clinical parameters 6."
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"Acquisition"
"Interpretation"
"Clinical applications"