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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2010 Oct;195(4):935–940. doi: 10.2214/AJR.10.4222

Fig. 1. Gadolinium enhancement patterns in ischemic versus nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Top row indicates carton of enhancement pattern, and bottom row shows patient examples from short-axis delayed enhancement MRI. (Adapted from [26]).

Fig. 1

A, Subendocardial enhancement or transmural enhancement is associated with infarction from ischemic disease. In this case, 75-year-old man has had infarction in circumflex artery territory.

B, Nonischemic cardiomyopathy with midwall stripe pattern in 46-year-old woman. This pattern is common in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

C, Nonischemic cardiomyopathy with epicardial enhancement pattern in 35-year-old woman. This patient had viral myocarditis.