Late gadolinium enhancement in patients with and without autoimmune rheumatic diseases: "walking, we create the way".

George Markousis-Mavrogenis¹, Alessia Pepe², Brittany N Weber³, Anne Hui Sze Kwong⁴, Vassiliki Vartela⁵, Monica Mukherjee⁶, Juerg Schwitter⁷, Sophie I Mavrogeni⁸

¹University Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine and UNESCO Chair in Adolescent Health Care, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.

²Department of Medicine DIMED, University of Padova, 35128 Padua, Italy; Institute of Radiology, University-Hospital of Padova, 35128 Padua, Italy.

³Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

⁴Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Paris, France.

⁵Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece.

⁶Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

⁷Service of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Cardiac MR Center of the University Hospital Lausanne and CMR Corelab (swissCVIcorelab, CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland; Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University (UniL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

⁸University Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health and Precision Medicine and UNESCO Chair in Adolescent Health Care, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece; Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: sophie.mavrogeni@gmail.com.

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Abstract

Myocardial fibrosis constitutes an important pathophysiologic and maladaptive process in the vast majority of cardiac diseases. Contemporary cardiologists are permitted a very nuanced glimpse of myocardial fibrosis by means of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), and specifically late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) methods. These allow the evaluation of the presence, extent, and distribu…

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