Ischemia still leads the way

According to our visitors, a great portion of the exams in their sites are ischemic testing.

Valvular heart disease: under used by CMR?

This review mentions many applications of CMR in assessing cardiac valve disease. This is a field where CMR is clearly underused and should gain further terrain as knowledge advances.

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Pulmonary Hypertension by CMR

The use of CMR to assess the right ventricle is undisputed. However, there is much more to the RV in pulmonary hypertension. This manuscript reviews all that can be achieved in PH with CMR. Widely recommended.

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ECG prediction, PCI and CMR in acute myocardial infarction

A very interesting manuscript in Spanish from the Rev Esp Cardiol with an editorial by Dr Raymond Kwong and Tomas Neilan.

The full PDF is here.

La suma de la elevación del segmento ST predice mejor la obstrucción microvascular en pacientes tratados con éxito con una intervención coronaria percutánea primaria. Un estudio de resonancia magnética cardiovascular
Oliver Husser. Vicente Bodí. Juan Sanchis. Julio Núnez. Luis Mainar. Eva Rumiz. María Pilar López-Lereu. José Monmeneu. Fabián Chaustre. Isabel Trapero. María J. Forteza. Günter A.J. Riegger. Francisco Javier Chorro. Àngel Llàcer.
Rev Esp Cardiol.2010; 63 :1145-54

Stress Perfusion Review

A review by Christiansen et al in Heart, Lung and Circulation provides a thorough look into the clinical and technological aspects of CMR perfusion.

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