Nov 6, 2020

Pathological entities that may affect the lungs and the myocardium. Evaluation with chest CT and cardiac MR

Clinical imaging
Felipe Sanchez, Jose M Gutierrez, Lan-Chau Kha, Laura Jimenez-Juan, Carlyne Cool, Daniel Vargas, Anastasia Oikonomou
Certain entities may simultaneously involve the lungs and the myocardium. Knowing their cardiac and thoracic manifestations enhances the understanding of those conditions and increases awareness and suspicion for possible concurrent cardiothoracic involvement. Entities that can present with pulmonary and myocardial involvement include infiltrative diseases like sarcoidosis and amyloidosis, eosinophil-associated conditions including eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) and...