Delayed myocardial enhancement can occur in cardiac MR assessment due to a number of causes.
They include:
- myocardial ischemia: typically subendocardial and follows a vascular territory 1
- non-ischemic cardiomyopathies
- cardiac amyloidosis
- cardiac sarcoidosis
- myocarditis: tends to be more nodular and subepicardial
- local trauma or post ablation
- cardiac involvement in hypereosinophilic syndrome: Loeffler endocarditis
- muscular dystrophies
- cardiac vasculitides