Key result
Cardiovascular CT and MR imaging provide important information for diagnosing and evaluating structural heart diseases, enabling the prediction of sudden cardiac death risk.
Why the study?
Diagnosing underlying structural heart disease significantly helps predict long-term risk of sudden cardiac death, making cardiovascular CT and MR critical tools for evaluation and risk preparation.
Cardiovascular CT and MR imaging are important modalities for diagnosing structural heart diseases to predict long-term risk of sudden cardiac death.
May inform structural heart evaluation; leaves open prospective validation of sudden cardiac death risk prediction.
Sudden cardiac death is an unexpected death originating from the heart that occurs within an hour of the onset of symptoms. The main cause of sudden cardiac death is arrhythmia; however, diagnosing underlying structural heart disease significantly contributes to predicting the long-term risk. Cardiovascular CT and MR provide important information for diagnosing and evaluating structural heart disease, enabling the prediction and preparation of the risk of sudden cardiac death. Therefore, we would like to focus on the various structural heart diseases that increase the risk of clinically-important sudden cardiac death and the importance of imaging findings.
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Lee et al. (2021) conducted a review in Structural heart diseases associated with sudden cardiac death. Cardiovascular CT and MR imaging was evaluated. Cardiovascular CT and MR imaging provide important information for diagnosing and evaluating structural heart diseases, enabling the prediction of sudden cardiac death risk.
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