Valvular Heart Disease
As an imaging modality, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) offers unrivaled versatility and freedom of anatomic access. In relation to heart valve disease, its relative strengths include the following: • Depiction…
T1 and T2 Mapping and Extracellular Volume in Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) exploits the inherent difference between tissues in their configuration of atoms by generating differing signals—the fundamental tissue properties T1, T2, and T2*. Whereas differences in these…
Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined as a disease of the myocardium characterized by left ventricular dilatation and systolic impairment that cannot be exclusively explained by abnormal loading conditions (such as…
Assessment of the Biophysical Mechanical Properties of the Arterial Wall
Arteries are elastic tubes whose diameter varies with the pulsating pressure. In addition, they propagate the pulse created by ejection of blood by the heart, at a velocity that is…
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…
