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Estimating Bilateral Atrial Function by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking in Patients with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
Published on: July 20, 2022
A New Method to Evaluate Atrial Hemodynamic and Quantify Mitral Regurgitation using Cardiovascular Magnetic
Giovanni Benfari1, Giulia Vinco2,3, Karl Sayegh3
1Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Electronic correspondence: giovanni.benfari@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Pulmonary venous flow (PVF) provides incremental information on left ventricular (LV) diastolic function, and can support the diagnosis of severe mitral regurgitation (MR). The suggestion has been made to combine the left atrial filling volume (LA Fill) and PVF for estimating the mitral regurgitant volume, but echocardiographic PVF evaluation is known to have many limitations. The present case report includes an example of how to assess PVF using cardiovascular magnetic resonance, and a new method is proposed for quantification of the mitral regurgitant volume.
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