Improvement in pulmonary hypertension discrimination using multiple MRA pant-leg parameters of pulmonary artery

نویسندگان

  • Phillip Kilgas
  • Eric M Schrauben
  • Alejandro Roldán-Alzate
  • Naomi Chesler
  • Oliver Wieben
  • Christopher J Francois
  • Mark L Schiebler
چکیده

Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a potentially severe disease that can lead to exercise intolerance, venous congestion, and heart failure. As a result of increased pulmonary pressures, dilation of the pulmonary arterial vasculature occurs. The extraction of these anatomical changes from magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) may eliminate the need for invasive measurements. The aim of this study was to explore the use of volumetric imaging of the pulmonary trunk and proximal right and left arteries using MRA as a new metric for diagnosing PAH.

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دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014