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Congenital heart disease

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Atlas of Practical Cardiac Applications of MRI

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 215))

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an extremely useful tool to study congenital heart disease as it has the main advantages of both echocardiography and conventional angiography1,2,3. Like echocardiography, MRI 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 evaluation of the ventriculo-arterial connections, the position and relationship between the great arteries and the drainage of the systemic and pulmonary veins4. An additional advantage of MRI that should be noted is its excellent image quality in the majority of patients, including adults5 and those who have been submitted to surgical cardiac correction, as it does not require a particular window to obtain images6, neither has it limitations in the orientation of views, and it can produce images in any desired plane of the heart7.

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Subirana-Doménech, M., Borrás-Pérez, X. (1999). Congenital heart disease. In: Atlas of Practical Cardiac Applications of MRI. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 215. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4544-2_10

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