Aquaro, G.D.; De Gori, C.; Faggioni, L.; Parisella, M.L.; Aringhieri, G.; Cioni, D.; Lencioni, R.; Neri, E. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Fabry Disease: Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Features. Diagnostics2022, 12, 2652.
Aquaro, G.D.; De Gori, C.; Faggioni, L.; Parisella, M.L.; Aringhieri, G.; Cioni, D.; Lencioni, R.; Neri, E. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Fabry Disease: Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Features. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 2652.
Aquaro, G.D.; De Gori, C.; Faggioni, L.; Parisella, M.L.; Aringhieri, G.; Cioni, D.; Lencioni, R.; Neri, E. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Fabry Disease: Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Features. Diagnostics2022, 12, 2652.
Aquaro, G.D.; De Gori, C.; Faggioni, L.; Parisella, M.L.; Aringhieri, G.; Cioni, D.; Lencioni, R.; Neri, E. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Fabry Disease: Morphological, Functional, and Tissue Features. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 2652.
Abstract
Fabry disease (FD) is a X-linked inheritable storage disease caused by deficiency of al-pha-galactosidase causing lysosomal overload of sphingolipids. FD cardiomyopathy is character-ized by left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and should be considered in differential diagnosis with all the other causes of LV hypertrophy. An early diagnosis of FD is very important because the enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) may change the fate of patients by blocking both cardiac and systemic involvement and improving prognosis. Diagnosis may be relatively easy in young patients with the typical signs ans symptoms of FD, but in male patients with late onset of disease and in females, diagnosis may be very challenging. Morphological and functional aspects are not specific for FD, which cannot be diagnosed or excluded by echocardiography. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) with tissue characterization capability, is the preferred technique for the differential diagnosis of LV hypertrophy. The finding of decreased myocardial T1 value in LV hypertrophy is very specific for FD. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is found in late stage of disease but it is useful to predict the cardiac response to ERT and to stratify the prognosis.
Keywords
Fabry disease; Cardiac magnetic Resonance; T1 mapping; Late gadolinium enhancement; Feature tracking.
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
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