T2-Weighted Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Edema in Myocardial Diseases
Figure 9
55-year-old female with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Long-axis delayed enhancement (a) shows no myocardial scarring of the apical myocardium, whereas the T2-weighted MRI (b) shows circumferential myocardial edema at the apical and midventricular regions (arrows). The T2-weighted MRI at its remission (c) shows no myocardial edema. The flow artifact is seen in the apical cavity (arrow), due to the insufficient blood signal suppression by black-blood prepulse.
