Suggested Paper of the week: On T2* Magnetic Resonance and Cardiac Iron
Dr. John-Paul Carpenter's and cols recent publication is about measurement of myocardial iron, that is key to the clinical management of patients at risk of iron-overload cardiomyopathy, which is a major killer in transfusion-dependent patients and others with errors of iron metabolism. They observed a strong correlation between cardiovascular magnetic resonance relaxation measurements and biochemically derived tissue iron concentration in 12 postmortem human hearts from transfusion-dependent patients, leading to a clinical calibration equation.
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