Latest Updates in Heart Failure Imaging

Heart failure (HF), a challenging and heterogeneous syndrome, still remains a major health problem worldwide, despite all the advances in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Cardiac imaging plays a pivotal role in the classification of HF, accurate diagnosis of underlying etiology and decision-making. Integration of other imaging techniques such as cardiac magnetic resonance , nuclear imaging , and exercise imaging testing is important to characterize HF accurately. This article reviews the role of multimodality imaging to diagnose patients with HF.