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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Heart disease is the leading cause of deaths in the United States. Every year approximately 735,000 Americans suffer a myocardial infarction (MI). Of these, 525,000 are a first MI, and 210,000 occur in people who have known CAD and a history of prior MI. Approximately 5.7 million adults in the United States have a diagnosis of heart failure. It is estimated that in 2010, over two million infants, children, adolescents, and adults were living with congenital heart disease (CHD) in the United States, and the number is ever-increasing as surgical approaches for underlying CHD and medical treatments improve. An estimated 2.7–6.1 million people in the United States have atrial fibrillation. With the aging of the US population, this number is expected to increase. Each of these cardiac conditions can be evaluated with cardiac MRI, either as a baseline diagnostic tool or as a therapeutic roadmap as in the case of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. With its increasing clinical availability, improved duration scan times (under 1 h), and lack of ionizing radiation, CMR is an excellent tool for the evaluation of cardiac structure and function in most cardiac patients.

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Two-, three-, and four-chamber cine images (MOV 6448 kb)

Four-chamber SSFP view . The large mass is clearly seen in the right atrium (gray structure in RA invading the interatrial septum) (MOV 844 kb)

Four-chamber tagging : tag lines highlight the size and location of the RA mass and indicate the relationship between different tissue planes, useful in determining the degree of mass invasion into surrounding structures (MOV 693 kb)

Cardiac CT which was helpful in this case to create a 3D image of the mass and its relationship to surrounding structures, including blood supply (MOV 12372 kb)

The post-gadolinium axial navigator sequence which highlights the size and location of the mass and its relationship to surrounding structures and indicates a necrotic core to the mass that was not appreciated prior to gadolinium administration (MOV 4397 kb)

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Morgan, R., Kwong, R.Y. (2019). Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Toth, P., Cannon, C. (eds) Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97622-8_27

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