Differentiation of diagnosis and prognoses of non-coronary arterial primary myocardial diseases with left ventricular focal myocardial thinning evaluated by multislice computed tomography

Dilated cardiomyopathy with centronuclear myopathy in a young male

“…Although cardiac involvement is extremely rare and has a poor prognosis, accurate diagnosis and early initiation of treatment may lead to a good prognosis. Caridac MRI can evaluate structures of heart diseases, including characteristic of myocardium [5,6] as well as MSCT [7][8][9][10]. Actually, cardiac MRI has been reported to be effective in detecting early stages of cardiomyopathy in patients with muscular dystrophy, which may indicate heart failure [11].…”