Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mimicking Pathology Detects Myocardial Fibrosis: a Door to Hope for Improving the Whole Course Management.

Myocardial fibrosis,characterized by the excessive deposition of extracellular matrix proteins,is an important underlying mech-anism for adverse outcomes in many cardiovascular diseases[1].Multiple modalities have been developed to identify and quantify myocardial fibrosis non-invasively.Cardiac magnetic resonance(CMR)imaging provides the gold standard for the assessment of cardiac structure and function.Furthermore,it is a robust non-invasive imaging modality that allows in vivo tissue characteriza-tion with accurate histological corroboration.It becomes the most striking imaging modality to evaluate myocardial fibrosis for its ability to provide the currently highest spatial resolution with excellent sensitivity and reproducibility[2].