Recent developments in non-invasive cardiology -- Prasad et al. 329 (7479): 1386 -- BMJ
Posted by Clark Venable on 12/10/2004
Recent developments in non-invasive cardiology -- Prasad et al. 329 (7479): 1386 -- BMJ:
"Current clinical applications of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
- General--measurement of cardiac volume and function; if echocardiography is unsatisfactory
- Great vessels--accurate sizing; detection of dissection, coarctation, stenosis; anomalous vessels
- Congenital heart disease--check for concordance of atrioventricular or ventriculoarterial connections; check for great vessels connections; assessment of conduits; assessment of complex anatomy
- Ischaemic heart disease--detection of regional wall motion abnormalities or infarction; assessment of viability
- Cardiomyopathy--identification of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; detection of fibrosis or scarring; risk stratification; quantification of iron overload in thalassemia
- Left ventricular mass--accurate assessment in hypertension; assessment of response to therapy
- Valvular disease--quantification of regurgitation
- Pericardium--assessment of thickening
- Cardiac masses--characterisation of tissue; assessment of extent of tumour
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