BACKGROUND Over the last 25 years, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has emerged as an alternative to echocardiography for assessment of valvular heart disease (VHD). Although echo remains the first-line imaging modality for the assessment of patients with VHD, CMR can now provide a comprehensive assessment in many instances. Using a combination of techniques, CMR provides informa...

OBJECTIVE Many Dutch hospitals have established internal systems for reporting incidents. However, such internal systems do not allow learning from incidents that occur in other hospitals. Therefore a multicenter, information technology (IT) supported reporting system named central medication incidents registration (CMR) was developed. This article describes the architecture, implementation and...

Background—Diffuse myocardial fibrosis is a final end point in most cardiac diseases. It is missed by the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement technique. Currently, quantifying diffuse myocardial fibrosis requires invasive biopsy, with inherent risk and sampling error. We have developed a robust and noninvasive technique, equilibrium contrast CMR (EQ–CMR) to quant...

BACKGROUND Non-traumatic out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is the leading cause of death worldwide, mainly due to acute coronary syndromes. Urgent coronary angiography with view to revascularisation is recommended in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. Diagnosis and management of patients with inconclusive coronary angiogram (unobstructed coronaries or unidentified culprit lesi...

Abstract Background Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) has become the diagnostic standard for evaluating aortic stenosis (AS) severity, mainly because of its advantages in comparison to gold cardiac catheterization. However, inaccuracies determining stroke volume (SV) and consequentially computing valve area (AVA) call a more precise dependable method. Phase contrast cardiovascular magnetic r...

Late gadolinium enhanced (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has proven to be the gold standard for viability assessment. LGE CMR is also useful for identifying the nature of cardiac masses or lesions. We report a case of a rare primary cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node, in which CMR proved to be valuable.

conclusions cmr with stir sequences, free breathing sequences and late gadolinium imaging can prove extremely useful for diagnosing constrictive pericarditis. case presentation a 77-year-old man from a country with high incidence of tuberculosis presented with severe dyspnea. echocardiography revealed a small left ventricle with normal systolic and mildly impaired diastolic function. left heart...

Methods Patients with VAs, without known cardiac condition were included (n=71). CMR, echocardiography and 12-lead ECGs were performed in all patients. Most patients underwent electrophysiologic testing (EPS). CMR findings were correlated with ECG and/or EPS findings. A morphological substrate was defined as 1) underlying cardiac condition detected by CMR, known to cause associated arrhythmia, ...

BACKGROUND In adults with prior arterial switch operation (ASO) for d-transposition of the great arteries, the need for routine coronary artery assessment and evaluation for silent myocardial ischemia is not well defined. In this observational study we aimed to determine the value of a comprehensive cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) protocol for the detection of coronary problems in adult...

OBJECTIVES We sought to quantify the myocardium at risk in reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in man with T2-weighted (T2W) cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). BACKGROUND The myocardial area at risk (AAR) is defined as the myocardial tissue within the perfusion bed distally to the culprit lesion of the infarct-related coronary artery. T2W CMR is appealing to retrospectively determine ...