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Role of cardiac MRI in assessment of restrictive cardiomyopathy
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Abstract
Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a myocardial disorder that usually results from increased myocardial stiffness that leads to impaired ventricular filling. Biventricular chamber size and systolic function are usually normal or near normal until later stages of the disease. Affecting either or both ventricles, RCM may cause signs or symptoms of left or right heart failure.RCM is classified into (i) familial or genetic causes and (ii) non-familial/non-genetic causes, because of the recent and increasing knowledge about genetic causes of cardiomyopathies. A high index of suspicion is essential to recognize early-stage RCM so that effective treatment can be initiated and prognosis potentially improved