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Magnetic Resonance (MR) is a multi-planar imaging technique, which exploits magnetic fields and radio-frequency (RF) pulses in order to perform anatomic and tissue assessment of body structures. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (cMR) has gained a prominent role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular system diseases, due to the possibility of combining detailed anatomical images, obtained by scanning different planes of space, with the functional evaluation of the heart. Despite high costs and time-consuming scanning processes, cMR is now of great importance in sports cardiology, because of the pressing need not only to confirm cardiovascular disease assessed by echocardiography but mainly in order to identify apparently healthy subjects, in whom severe cardiomyopathy is latent, which carries the risk of death during physical effort. The clinical indications for cMR have recently been defined by Consensus Panel Report [1].
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Galiuto, L., Locorotondo, G., Fedele, E. (2012). Cardiac MR. In: Fioranelli, M., Frajese, G. (eds) Sports Cardiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2775-6_6
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