1 Prevalence of extra-cardiac findings detected by cardiac MRI in inherited vs acquired cardiovascular diseases

Cardiac MRI: Part 1, cardiovascular shunts.

OBJECTIVE MRI plays an important role in the morphologic and functional evaluation of cardiovascular shunts. Good spatiotemporal resolution, inherent contrast resolution, wide FOV, and multiplanar imaging capabilities make MRI an ideal tool in the investigation of cardiovascular shunts. The velocity-encoded phase-contrast sequence is used in the quantification of a shunt and the steady-state fr...

The Prevalence of Incidental Findings at Cardiac MRI

UNLABELLED OBJECT OR PURPOSE OF STUDY: As the field of view of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) includes the thorax and upper abdomen, it is not surprising that these studies can reveal incidental extra-cardiac abnormalities. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of these incidental findings. MATERIALS, METHODS AND PROCEDURES 132 volunteer participants with a mean a...

Prevalence and clinical relevance of extra-cardiac findings at cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Methods N=854 patient studies (median age 58 ± 12 years, male 63%) were included and examined by 1.5 Tesla (T) MR to primarily analyze the cardiac anatomy and secondly the surrounding structures. Extra-cardiac findings were classified as significant (Group A) if they were recommended to additional diagnostics or therapeutical interventions and as non-significant if there was no influence on pat...

Prevalence and clinical significance of extracardiac findings on cardiac MRI

Developmental Basis of Cardiac Inherited Diseases

470 Extracardiac endothelium patterns embryonic coronary arterio-venous connections JM. Perez-Pomares1; E. Cano2; R. Carmona1; A. Ruiz-Villalba3; A. Rojas4; Y-Y. Chau5; KD. Wagner6; N. Wagner6; ND. Hastie5; R. Munoz-Chapuli1 University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Biologı́a Molecul...