TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Darwish Mohamed Homos AU - Azza Abdelmoneim Farrag , AU - Magdy Ibrahim Bassiouny , AU - Seif Eldin Abaza Elmoneim , TI - Delayed enhancement cardiac MRI in heart failure related to dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Darwish Mohamed Homos , KW - Delayed enhancement KW - Heart failure KW - MRI N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - In patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction, the primary diagnostic issue is to differentiate the underlying cause whether related to coronary artery disease or dilated cardiomyopathy, for which coronary angiography was often used. Delayed enhancement-magnetic resonance imaging (DE-MRI) is a valuable technique to identify myocardial tissue characteristics through retention of gadolinium in areas with reduced density of viable myocytes so appear enhancing bright UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -