The substantial advances in the medical and surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases have dramatically improved patients’ life expectancy, as well as increased the number of those needing lifelong monitoring to identify complications and residual defects. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an ideal imaging modality for the follow-up of these young patients owing to its noninvasiveness, high reproducibility and morphological and functional accuracy. This paper describes the most appropriate MRI techniques and sequences for the study of cardiovascular heart diseases on the basis of an analysis of MRI studies carried out between January 2003 and June 2006 on 274 patients affected by all of the main congenital cardiovascular malformations, as well as a review of the literature. The advantages of MRI with respect to other imaging techniques, the problems encountered and the main clinical applications and indications of MRI, with special reference to the most common disease entities, are then discussed to define the role, the utility and the future perspectives of this imaging technique in the study of congenital heart diseases

Role and effectiveness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis, preoperative evaluation and follow-up of patients with congenital heart diseases / Lovato L.; Giardini A.; La Palombara C.; Russo V.; Gostoli V.; Gargiulo G.; Picchio FM.; Fattori R.. - In: LA RADIOLOGIA MEDICA. - ISSN 0033-8362. - STAMPA. - 112(5):(2007), pp. 660-680. [10.1007/s11547-007-0171-3]

Role and effectiveness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis, preoperative evaluation and follow-up of patients with congenital heart diseases.

GIARDINI, ALESSANDRO;GARGIULO, GAETANO DOMENICO;PICCHIO, FERNANDO MARIA;FATTORI, ROSSELLA
2007

Abstract

The substantial advances in the medical and surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases have dramatically improved patients’ life expectancy, as well as increased the number of those needing lifelong monitoring to identify complications and residual defects. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an ideal imaging modality for the follow-up of these young patients owing to its noninvasiveness, high reproducibility and morphological and functional accuracy. This paper describes the most appropriate MRI techniques and sequences for the study of cardiovascular heart diseases on the basis of an analysis of MRI studies carried out between January 2003 and June 2006 on 274 patients affected by all of the main congenital cardiovascular malformations, as well as a review of the literature. The advantages of MRI with respect to other imaging techniques, the problems encountered and the main clinical applications and indications of MRI, with special reference to the most common disease entities, are then discussed to define the role, the utility and the future perspectives of this imaging technique in the study of congenital heart diseases
2007
Role and effectiveness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis, preoperative evaluation and follow-up of patients with congenital heart diseases / Lovato L.; Giardini A.; La Palombara C.; Russo V.; Gostoli V.; Gargiulo G.; Picchio FM.; Fattori R.. - In: LA RADIOLOGIA MEDICA. - ISSN 0033-8362. - STAMPA. - 112(5):(2007), pp. 660-680. [10.1007/s11547-007-0171-3]
Lovato L.; Giardini A.; La Palombara C.; Russo V.; Gostoli V.; Gargiulo G.; Picchio FM.; Fattori R.
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