INTRODUCTION Carcinoid heart disease is a rare condition in adults. Its diagnosis can be easily missed in a patient presenting to a primary care setting. We revised the advantages of using coronary multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing this condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied a 65-year-old patient with carcinoid heart disea...

Our manuscript addresses the reliability of cardiac CT as an alternative for cardiac MRI in patients with a systemic right ventricle. Currently, cardiac MRI is considered the gold standard for volumes and function measurements of the systemic right ventricle. However, 20% of patients with a systemic right ventricle is pacemaker dependent, and therefore unsuitable to undergo MRI. To our knowledg...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart with magnetization tagging provides a potentially useful new way to assess cardiac mechanical function, through revealing the local motion of otherwise indistinguishable portions of the heart wall. While still an evolving area, tagged cardiac MRI is already able to provide novel quantitative information on cardiac function. Exploiting this potential...

Background Pediatric cardiac MRIs form a small but critical part of MRI imaging at a busy pediatric cardiac imaging center. We had a higher than acceptable rate of no-show and wait times for scheduled cardiac MRIs, which was a source of patient and provider dissatisfaction in our institution. Previously, the process of scheduling a cardiac MRI was facilitated by a nonmedical provider. Dedicated...

UNLABELLED Blood-pool (BP)-gated SPECT should be able to detect regional left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, as the modality is fully 3-dimensional and capable of resolving all cardiac chambers. This study investigates the hypothesis that LV segments that have abnormal regional wall motion (WM) on a cardiac MRI scan also have abnormal BP regional ejection fraction (EF) as computed by fully autom...

Cardiovascular transgenic mouse models with an early phenotype or even premature death require noninvasive imaging methods that allow for accurate visualization of cardiac morphology and function. Thus the purpose of our study was to assess the feasibility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to characterize cardiac function and mass in newborn, juvenile, and adult mice. Forty-five C57bl/6 mice ...