Endomyocardial biopsy: a 21st century diagnostic tool

The question of the utility of Endomyocardial Biopsy (EMB) often and recurrently raises. It is claimed that the image techniques provide identical results without the risks of an invasive procedure. It is a fact that the impressive technico-scientific development of cardiovascular imagological metho...

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Published in:Polish journal of pathology 2021-01, Vol.72 (4), p.356-357
Main Authors: Gouveia, Rosa, Andrade, Maria, Aguiar, Carlos, Ramos, Sância
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Amyloidosis
Biopsy
cardiac graft
Cardiology
Diagnosis
endomyocardial biopsy
Heart failure
native heart
Pathology
Transplants & implants
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Summary:The question of the utility of Endomyocardial Biopsy (EMB) often and recurrently raises. It is claimed that the image techniques provide identical results without the risks of an invasive procedure. It is a fact that the impressive technico-scientific development of cardiovascular imagological methodologies covers a broad spectrum of diagnosis. It is also a fact that endomyocardial biopsy is not completely risk-free. Yet, when performed by experienced professionals in reference centres, endomyocardial biopsies my disclose a final unexpected nosologic entity, confirm or exclude a proposed diagnosis and, even when not showing specific lesions in the examined samples, EMB may point to a multifocal involvement of the heart that eventually skipped the fragments collected [1, 2, 3].
ISSN:1233-9687
2084-9869
DOI:10.5114/PJP.2021.114184