Background Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Imaging has enabled significant advances in the management of Paediatric Heart disease. However, conventional CMR has three main problems when applied to children. Firstly, the MR environment can be very intimidating for small children. Secondly, many sequences require multiple breath holds, which can be difficult in young or unwell children. F...

Results Of the 202 patients undergoing TAVI assessment with both CMR and TTE, 133 also underwent CCT. Close agreement was observed between CMR and CCT in dimensions of the aortic annulus (bias, 0.4 mm; 95% limits of agreement: 5.7 to 5.0 mm), and similarly for sinus of Valsalva, sinotubular junction, and ascending aortic measures. Agreement between TTE-derived measures and either CMR or CCT was...

The clinical applications of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), are expanding as the result of the development in hardware, pulse sequence and the ability of post-processing techniques. As the result of the flexibility of CMR to use different pulsesequences, with or without the use of Gadolinium, CMR has developed as a powerful tool for clinical relevant tissue characterization. C...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Acute myocarditis (AM) is generally a self-limited and benign disease. However, minority patients (pts) present or develop adverse outcomes. It has been proposed that the presence late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in septum associated with worse prognosis. Also, LGE without oedema follow-up cardiac magnetic resonance ...

The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of cardiac functional values obtained from free-breathing real-time cine CMR with the temporal sensitivity encoding (TSENSE) technique by comparing them with values obtained from conventional cine CMR. For the real-time cine CMR, two protocols were employed, one with good temporal resolution and one with good spatial resolution. The functional va...

Background Clinical cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is routinely performed during multiple breathholds in predefined 2D image orientations. 3D CMR is desirable, since it allows post-acquisition reformatting in any desired imaging plane. However, 3D CMR is hampered by long breath-hold duration, introducing patient discomfort and technical limitations. These limitations can be ove...

Results CMR was used in a large variety of indications, with inflammatory (29.4%) and ischemic (26.2%) heart disease as the most frequent. All moderate adverse events (0.5%) were associated with stress medication or contrast media. In subgroup analysis, CMR ruled out a suspected disease in 63.1%, confirmed a suspected or known disease in 27.8% or detected an unexpected new pathology in 7.2%. Th...

Background Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is utilized as both a primary and adjunctive imaging modality for the diagnosis and evaluation of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy and characterization of myocardial iron loading. Adequate image quality and accurate diagnosis is dependent on the patient lying still; however, CMR exams can be long, requiring children to lie still for pe...

BACKGROUND Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by microvascular abnormalities, inflammation and fibrosis. We hypothesized that myocarditis may be diagnosed in asymptomatic SSc, undergoing routine cardio-vascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for fibrosis assessment, using the Lake Louise criteria: T2 ratio, early (EGE) and late gadolinium enhanced (LGE) images. METHODS ...

CMR is a rapidly developing new modality with applications in clinical cardiology for detection and assessment of myocardial ischemia and viability. CMR perfusion results for the detection of ischemia in comparison with stress echocardiography and scintigraphic techniques are reasonable, but all the studies reported to date have been conduced in selected patients. Larger studies in patient popu...