Key result
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography provide sufficient information about morphology and function in congenital heart disease when echocardiography is insufficient.
Cardiac MRI and CT are valuable imaging modalities for the lifelong follow-up and detailed anatomical and functional assessment of patients with congenital heart disease.
May support CMR/CT when echocardiography is inadequate in congenital heart disease; leaves open need for prospective outcome studies.
The successes of the diagnosis and the treatment of the grown up congenital heart disease improved the prognosis of these patients by further innovations. Lifelong regular follow up is necessary for these patients. Cardiac magnetic resonance imagination and the computed tomography give us more sufficient information about the morphology and the function when the first line diagnostic tool echocardiographic information is handicapped.
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Küçükdurmaz et al. (2013) conducted a review in Congenital Heart Diseases. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography vs. Echocardiography was evaluated. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography provide sufficient information about morphology and function in congenital heart disease when echocardiography is insufficient.
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