Extracardiac Findings: What Is a Cardiologist to Do?

Extracardiac findings: what is a cardiologist to do?

s g p imilar issues confront the nuclear cardiolgist (1). Because there is limited guidance n how to handle these findings, each inerpreter likely approaches them in a differnt manner. Whereas some may ignore hem, most probably comment along the ines of “abnormality noted, further testing uggested if clinically indicated” and feel hat this satisfies their professional and oral obligations to th...

cancer diagnosis disclosure: what is the right thing to do?

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Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Intra- or extracardiac Fontan operation? A simple strategy when to do what

INTRODUCTION The complete Fontan circulation is the definite palliation for many complex congenital cardiac lesions. After bi-directional Glenn anastomosis (BDG), two well-established techniques - intracardiac tunneling and extracardiac prosthesis - are available for completion, although the choice of technique is still a matter of debate. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the ...

Extra-cardiac findings in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: what the imaging cardiologist needs to know

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an established non-invasive technique to comprehensively assess cardiovascular structure and function in a variety of acquired and inherited cardiac conditions. A significant amount of the neck, thorax and upper abdomen are imaged at the time of routine clinical CMR, particularly in the initial multi-slice axial and coronal images. The discovery of uns...