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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
MRI of Cardiotoxicity
Jennifer Hawthorne Jordan1, William Gregory Hundley2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences, 8-119B, 1200 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.
Abstract:
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is useful to identify systolic dysfunction, particularly when echocardiographic imaging is not acceptable because of poor acoustic windows or when left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is inconclusive by other modalities and an accurate LVEF measurement is needed. Of particular advantage in cardio-oncology is CMR's capability to perform tissue characterization to noninvasively identify changes in pathologic conditions related to cancer therapy or to discriminate causes of disease that may confound presentation in cardio-oncology patients. For these reasons, there is an increasing use of CMR in the screening and surveillance of cardio-oncology patients.
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