Incidental Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac MR in a Tertiary Hospital

Incidental Extracardiac Findings and Their Characterization on Cardiac MRI

Background Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) has recently emerged as a new noninvasive imaging modality that offers superior structural and functional assessment of the heart. cMRI benefits from a large field of view but, consequently, may capture incidental extracardiac findings (IEFs). We aimed to evaluate the frequency and significance of IEFs reported from clinically indicated cMRI ...

Extracardiac findings on cardiac computed tomography: a radiologist's perspective.

There has been debate in the cardiology literature as to how to handle unexpected noncardiac findings on cardiac computed tomography examinations. From the perspective of a radiologist, all structures on the presented images should be assessed. The interpreter needs to carefully window the findings down to potentially important ones. Then the question becomes what to do next. Cardiologists who ...

Impact of Extracardiac Findings during Cardiac MR on Patient Management and Outcome

BACKGROUND Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly used to assess heart diseases. Relevant non-cardiac diseases may also be incidentally found on CMR images. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and nature of incidental extra-cardiac findings (IEF) and their clinical impact in non-selected patients referred for CMR. MATERIAL/METHODS MR images of 762 consecutive patie...

Incidental extra-cardiac findings on clinical CMR.

AIMS Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging benefits from a large field of view, but consequently captures incidental extra-cardiac findings (IEFs). There is a relative paucity of data for CMR in this regard. Our objectives were to assess the frequency and significance of IEFs reported from clinically indicated CMR scans, and additionally to ascertain if reporting rates differed between radio...

Prevalence and clinical significance of extracardiac findings on cardiac MRI