Abstract #3399

Myocardial Fat Deposition in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Assessment by using MR Water-Fat Separation Imaging

Minjie Lu¹, Shihua Zhao¹, Shiliang Jiang¹, Yang Zhang¹, Jing An², Jerecic Renate³, Saurabh Shah⁴

¹Radiology, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; ²Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Healthcare, MR Collaboration NE Asia., Beijing, China, People's Republic of; ³Siemens Limited China, Siemens Healthcare, MR Collaboration NE Asia, Beijing, Germany; ⁴Siemens Healthcare, Chicago, IL, United States

Fat deposition has a high prevalence in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy(ARVC). The incidence was reported approximately 68% in ARVC. While it is unclear in dilated cardiomyopathy. In this study, we use the latest water fat separation sequence to evaluate fat deposition in dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM) and found that fat deposition is quite common in DCM and it is associated with DCM characteristics including fibrosis volume and left ventricular function.