Cardiac MRI for Evaluation of Right Heart Function before and after Catheter-directed Therapy in Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: A Prospective Study of Feasibility and Potential Utility
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Suspected Cardiac Thrombus: Conventional and Emerging Techniques
Published on: June 11, 2019
Matthew LeComte1, Gregory Woodhead1, Diana Palacio1
1Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724 (M.L., G.W., D.P., A.K., H.M., C.H.); and Department of Radiology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill (R.A.).
Abstract:
Cardiac MRI is clinically feasible in the setting of submassive pulmonary embolism and is able to demonstrate measurable differences of right heart function before and after catheter-directed therapy.
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