Key result
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides alternative and complementary applications for evaluating left ventricular diastolic function, offering superior accuracy and reproducibility to echocardiography in some cases.
Why the study?
How does cardiovascular magnetic resonance compare to echocardiography for the assessment of left ventricular diastolic function?
How does cardiovascular magnetic resonance compare to echocardiography for the assessment of left ventricular diastolic function?
CMR provides a viable, and in some aspects superior or complementary, alternative to echocardiography for assessing left ventricular diastolic function in clinical practice and research.
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May complement echocardiography for LV diastolic assessment in select cases; leaves open need for outcome validation before wider adoption.
Prevalence of heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction amounts to 50% of all cases with heart failure. Diagnosis assessment requires evidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Currently, echocardiography is the method of choice for diastolic function testing in clinical practice. Various applications are in use and recommended criteria are followed for classifying the severity of dysfunction. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) offers a variety of alternative applications for evaluation of diastolic function, some superior to echocardiography in accuracy and reproducibility, some being complementary. In this article, the role of the available CMR applications for diastolic function testing in clinical practice and research is reviewed and compared to echocardiography.
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Jos J.M. Westenberg (2011) conducted a review in Diastolic dysfunction. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) vs. Echocardiography was evaluated. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance provides alternative and complementary applications for evaluating left ventricular diastolic function, offering superior accuracy and reproducibility to echocardiography in some cases.
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