The Contribution of Cardiac MRI: Data from our Recent Experience at ???Evagelismos?? Hospital

Authors

  • Theodoros M. Kratimenos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v3i1%20sup.134

Keywords:

cardiac MRI, clinical applications

Abstract

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is established in clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of diseases of the cardiovascular system and has been shown to provide highly accurate and reproducible measurements of cardiodynamic parameters and for the assessment of cardiac morphology. We present our recent experience in cardiac imaging with MRI. The aim of this presentation is to focus on MRI findings of various cardiovascular diseases, as an alternative non invasive imaging method for diagnosis and follow-up of these patients. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is established in clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of diseases of the cardiovascular system. CMR is very safe and no long-term ill effects have been demonstrated. Considerable technical and practice advances have been made over the last several years??. MRI was introduced into clinical routine for the assessment of cardiac morphology more than 10 years ago. The multiplanar crosssectional nature inherent to cine-MR imaging coupled with high spatial and temporal resolution has been shown to provide highly accurate and reproducible measurements of cardiodynamic parameters and must be considered as the standard of reference for the assessment of ventricular volumes, ejection fraction, and regional wall motion abnormalities.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 sup (2008)

Section

Athens Cardiology Update 2008

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