Ectopic cardiac fatty images are not rarely detected incidentally at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance, either in exams focused on the heart as in general thoracic imaging evaluations. A correct interpretation of these findings is essential in order to recognize their normal or pathological meaning, focusing on the eventually associated clinical implications. The development of techniques such as computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance allowed a detailed detection and evaluation of adipose tissue within the heart. This pictorial review illustrates the most common characteristics of cardiac fatty images at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance, in a spectrum of normal and pathological conditions ranging from physiological adipose images to diseases presenting with cardiac fatty foci. Physiologic intramyocardial adipose tissue may normally be present in healthy adults, being not related to cardiac affections and without any clinical consequence. However cardiac fatty images may also be the expression of various diseases, comprehending arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, post-myocardial infarction lipomatous metaplasia, dilated cardiomyopathy and lipomatous hypertrophy of the inter-atrial septum. Fatty neoplasms of the heart as lipoma and liposarcoma are also described.

Fatty images of the heart: spectrum of normal and pathological findings at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging / Cannavale, Giuseppe; Francone, Marco; Galea, Nicola; Vullo, Francesco; Molisso, Antonio; Carbone, Iacopo; Catalano, Carlo. - In: BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 2314-6133. - STAMPA. - 2018:(2018). [10.1155/2018/5610347]

Fatty images of the heart: spectrum of normal and pathological findings at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Giuseppe Cannavale
Primo
;
Marco Francone
Secondo
;
Nicola Galea;Francesco Vullo;Iacopo Carbone
Penultimo
;
Carlo Catalano
Ultimo
2018

Abstract

Ectopic cardiac fatty images are not rarely detected incidentally at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance, either in exams focused on the heart as in general thoracic imaging evaluations. A correct interpretation of these findings is essential in order to recognize their normal or pathological meaning, focusing on the eventually associated clinical implications. The development of techniques such as computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance allowed a detailed detection and evaluation of adipose tissue within the heart. This pictorial review illustrates the most common characteristics of cardiac fatty images at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance, in a spectrum of normal and pathological conditions ranging from physiological adipose images to diseases presenting with cardiac fatty foci. Physiologic intramyocardial adipose tissue may normally be present in healthy adults, being not related to cardiac affections and without any clinical consequence. However cardiac fatty images may also be the expression of various diseases, comprehending arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, post-myocardial infarction lipomatous metaplasia, dilated cardiomyopathy and lipomatous hypertrophy of the inter-atrial septum. Fatty neoplasms of the heart as lipoma and liposarcoma are also described.
2018
cardiac fat; adipose tissue; computed tomography; cardiac magnetic resonance
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Fatty images of the heart: spectrum of normal and pathological findings at computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging / Cannavale, Giuseppe; Francone, Marco; Galea, Nicola; Vullo, Francesco; Molisso, Antonio; Carbone, Iacopo; Catalano, Carlo. - In: BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 2314-6133. - STAMPA. - 2018:(2018). [10.1155/2018/5610347]
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