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All patients underwent a 3.0 T scan involving balanced steady-state free precession cine images as well as dark-blood T2W images and assessment of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE). In 26% of patients (n = 21) CMR revealed cardiac abnormalities, in 20% (n = 16) not suspected on prior echocardiography. The main findings included: non-ischemic ventricular scars (n = 8), arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (n = 6), left ventricular clefts (n = 4) and active myocarditis (n = 3). LGE was present in 57% of patients with abnormal findings. Univariate predictors of abnormal CMR result included abnormalities in echocardiography and severe VA (combination of &gt;10% of 24 h VA burden and\/or presence of ventricular tachycardia and\/or polymorphic VA). 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