Quantification of Right and Left Ventricular Function by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance |
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Authors: | Nicholas G Bellenger Frank Grothues Gillian C Smith Dudley J Pennell |
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Institution: | Cardiovascular MR Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. |
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Abstract: | Cardiac dysfunction is a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Accurate and reproducible assessment of cardiac function is essential for the diagnosis, the assessment of prognosis and evaluation of a patient's response to therapy. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) provides a measure of global and regional function that is not only accurate and reproducible but is noninvasive, free of ionising radiation, and independent of the geometric assumptions and acoustic windows that limit echocardiography. With the advent of faster scanners, automated analysis, increasing availability and reducing costs, CMR is fast becoming a clinically tenable reference standard for the measurement of cardiac function. |
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