New Latin American Cardiac Imaging Site

Started this week - promises to be very educational.

Content initially in Portuguese.

Many thanks to Marcelo Hadlich and Rochelle Coppo.

http://www.imagemcardiologica.com.br/

CMR Perfusion - gold standard

This was news on Auntminnie. I quote:

"Dynamic cardiac CT stress perfusion equivalent to MRI
By Eric Barnes, AuntMinnie.com staff writer

Cardiac MRI may be the gold standard for evaluating myocardial perfusion, but there's no reason CT can't eventually take over much of MRI's workload in patients suspected of coronary artery disease"

OK, it's a site dedicated to imaging but it is very good news to hear that CMR is being considered as the gold standard for perfusion. Very stimulating!

T2 review - more debate

A new review on T2 imaging was recently launched in JCMR.

Read the free full text at: http://jcmr-online.com/content/pdf/1532-429X-13-13.pdf

The debate is on!

Fibrosis and CMR

One of the hottest topics at SCMR/EuroCMR 2011 in a very elegant review in JACC:

Link here.

What was hot in SCMR 2011

Our votes indicated that T2 and edema imaging would be hot. Well, it was in a way but a lot of controversy arose this year. More robust data was demanded from many speakers and certainly new data will have to be put forward to put this powerful tool into real clinical setting.