Key Points ▪ The chest radiograph is useful to prompt consideration of aortic pathologies but is not able to reliably offer a final diagnosis for most, which is reserved for…

Key Points ▪ To appreciate the abnormal patterns of pulmonary vasculature, it is important to be proficient with the details and nuances of normal pulmonary vasculature patterns. ▪ The classic…

Key Points ▪ Most bioprostheses can be identified on and localized by chest radiography. The lateral chest radiograph often assists with obviating the projection of a bioprosthesis onto the spine,…

Key Points ▪ Mechanical prostheses are evident on chest radiography. Their position is readily determined. ▪ Older models of mechanical prostheses were radiographically obvious due to the greater ferrous metal…

Key Points ▪ Annuloplasty rings may be inserted to support mitral or tricuspid valve repairs. ▪ The radiographic appearance of annuloplasty rings varies according to the design and includes partial…

Key Points ▪ One of the great contributions of chest radiography to clinical cardiology and intensive care medicine is the assessment of left-sided heart failure, because chest radiography adds incrementally…

Key Points ▪ Bioprostheses may develop transvalvar or perivalvar insufficiency, and mechanical prostheses may develop thrombotic or pannus-mediated obstruction or paravalvar insufficiency. ▪ The consequences of valve prosthesis dysfunction may…

Key Points ▪ Radiographically apparent aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonic valve prostheses can all be identified and localized by chest radiography. Older mechanical and biological valves were easy to identify because…

Key Points ▪ The lateral chest radiograph is particularly useful for the recognition of specific chamber enlargement (other than that of the right atrium) for the recognition of the valve…

Key Points ▪ The chest radiograph allows for determination of overall heart size assessment as well as of some degree of specific chamber size assessment. ▪ On the chest radiograph,…