Multimodality cardiac imaging.

Multimodality Imaging of Heart Valve Disease

Unidentified heart valve disease is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality. It has therefore become important to accurately identify, assess and monitor patients with this condition in order that appropriate and timely intervention can occur. Although echocardiography has emerged as the predominant imaging modality for this purpose, recent advances in cardiac magnetic resonance a...

Emerging role of multimodality imaging to evaluate patients at risk for sudden cardiac death.

Multimodality imaging of a cardiac paraganglioma

Paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors arising from the ganglia of the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system. Less than 160 cases of intrapericardial or intracardiac paragangliomas have been reported in the English language peer-reviewed medical literature. Here, we report a case of intrapericardial paraganglioma, which illustrates some typical multimodality imaging features of t...

Multimodality imaging of pericardial diseases.

Pericardial disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. Inflammatory diseases of the pericardium constitute a spectrum ranging from acute pericarditis to chronic constrictive pericarditis. Other important entities that involve the pericardium include benign and malignant pericardial masses, pericardial cysts, and diverticula, as well as cong...

CV imaging for fellows in training: challenges and opportunities.

oday’s trainees and early career physicians in cardiology have seen unprecedented changes in the health care landscape. Rapidly advancing imaging technology has helped clinicians take great strides in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Diagnostic tools have augmented patients’ medical histories and physical examinations in cardiology more than in most other medical fields. ...

Multimodality imaging of cardiac tumour.