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Congenital Heart Disease

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Atlas of Practical Applications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 255))

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an extremely useful tool to study congenital heart disease, as it has the main advantages of both echocardiography and conventional angiography. Like ultrasound, CMR is a noninvasive technique providing accurate morphological information on the heart and, as angiography, it allows the study of extracardiac vascular structures. This latter characteristic is very important, because it permits to evaluate the ventriculo-arterial connections, the position and relationship between the great arteries and the drainage of the systemic and pulmonary veins. An additional advantage of CMR that should be noted is its excellent image quality in the majority of patients, including adults and those who have been submitted to surgical cardiac correction, as it does not require a particular window to obtain adequate images, neither it has limitations in the orientation of views, and it can produce images in any desired plane of the hearts.

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Subirana, M., Borrás, X. (2005). Congenital Heart Disease. In: Pons-Lladó, G., Carreras, F. (eds) Atlas of Practical Applications of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 255. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23634-1_10

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