 Patients were imaged in supine position in a 3T magnet Achieva, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands. The CMR protocol consisted of electrocardiographically gated cine imaging with steady state free-precession to assess left ventricular LV function and LV mass. For imaging of late gadolinium enhancement LGE we used an inversion-recovery-prepared, gradient-echo sequence with segmented acquisition, which was triggered every other heartbeat. LGE images were acquired during end-expiratory breath-holding for slices matching the slice locations for cine imaging, starting within 10 min after bolus administration of a cumulative dose of 0.2 mmolKg of gadoterate meglumine Dotarem, Guerbet, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France. T1 was performed with a Look-Locker sequence with a non-slice-selective adiabatic inversion pulse, followed by segmented gradient-echo acquisition for 17 times after inversion, covering approximately two cardiac cycles. The Look-Locker sequence was performed in a single short-axis slice at the level of the mid left ventricle. T1 imaging was repeated in the same LV short-axis slice, once before and five to seven times after the injection of gadolinium to cover an approximately 30-min period of slow contrast clearance. 