Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Imaging and Assessment of Flow
Since the report published in 1968 by Favaloro about the use of saphenous veins to restore coronary artery blood flow in 171 patients, a large number of coronary artery bypass…
Coronary Artery and Sinus Velocity and Flow
A coronary stenosis may be observed during cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) as an area of signal loss caused by turbulent flow, and although both the degree and the extent of…
Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging: Coronaries
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of global mortality. It results from atherosclerosis, which is a systemic and progressive disease involving the intimal layer of large- and medium-sized…
Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging: Aorta and Carotid
Although death rates in industrialized countries have been consistently falling since the 1980s, atherosclerosis is now raging throughout the developing world. As a consequence the complications of atherosclerosis have become…
Coronary Artery Imaging: Clinical Results
Chapter 23 reviewed the technical issues and solutions for coronary artery cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. This chapter reviews the clinical data comparing coronary artery CMR with invasive x-ray coronary…
Myocardial Viability
The detection of residual myocardial viability in a patient with regional or global severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is of clinical importance to plan the therapeutic strategy because revascularization of…
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Tagging for Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function
Left ventricular (LV) diastolic function has been recognized as an important factor in the pathophysiology of many common cardiovascular diseases. Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), coronary artery disease (CAD), and…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Coronary Arteries: Technique
Despite significant efforts in prevention and treatment, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in every seven deaths. Each year…
Acute Myocardial Infarction: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Detection and Characterization
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can characterize acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in unique ways and with high quality. Cine CMR can assess left ventricular (LV) volumes, ejection fraction (LVEF), and regional…
Clinical Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques
The first dedicated cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) clinical services opened in the United States in mid-1990s. Since that time, CMR imaging has become routine at most academic medical centers, with…
