Stress cardiovascular MR in routine clinical practice: referral patterns, accuracy, tolerance, safety and incidental findings

JP Khoo, BJ Grundy, CD Steadman… - The British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective The use of stress cardiovascular MR (CMR) to evaluate myocardial ischaemia has
increased significantly over recent years. We aimed to assess the indications, incidental …

Diagnostic performance of combined cardiac MRI for detection of coronary artery disease

RAF de Mello, MS Nacif, AASMD dos Santos… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of stress perfusion cardiac MR (CMR)
for detecting significant CAD (≥ 70% narrowing) in comparison with invasive coronary …

CMR versus SPECT for diagnosis of coronary heart disease–Authors' reply

JP Greenwood, JM Brown, CJ Dickinson, SG Ball… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
1 Cheng AS, Pegg TJ, Karamitsos TD, et al. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion
imaging at 3-tesla for the detection of coronary artery disease: a comparison with 1.5-tesla. J …

Ischemic heart disease

J Bogaert, S Dymarkowski - Clinical Cardiac MRI, 2012 - Springer
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized
countries and poses an enormous financial burden on our society. As a consequence …

[HTML][HTML] Will 3D at 3-T make myocardial stress perfusion magnetic resonance imaging even more competitive?

J Vogel-Claussen - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012 - jacc.org
Currently, two-dimensional (2D) adenosine stress myocardial perfusion cardiac magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) uses 3 to 4 cardiac slices to cover the left ventricular myocardium …

Noninvasive imaging in acute coronary syndromes

G Srinivasan, J Selvanayagam - 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Coronary artery disease is the most prevalent manifestation of cardiovascular disease and
acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are one of the potentially life-threatening presentations of …

Myocardial Perfusion

J Bogaert, K Goetschalckx - Clinical Cardiac MRI, 2012 - Springer
Coronary plaque formation impeding myocardial perfusion is the most frequent cause of
myocardial ischemia. Myocardial perfusion imaging by MRI is rapidly gaining acceptance as …