Magnetic resonance imaging, particularly with advanced angiography and flow mapping techniques, holds potential as a major noninvasive tool for evaluating coronary artery bypass graft patency and function.
May support noninvasive graft assessment in select patients; leaves open the need for prospective validation before routine use.
Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography and flow mapping have the potential to become a major noninvasive diagnostic tool for the assessment of coronary artery bypass graft morphology and function. Several MR sequences, such as conventional non-respiratory compensated methods, and phase contrast cine flow sequences have been reported for the evaluation of bypass graft patency. However the visualization of different graft segments and the detection of graft stenosis remains difficult. Recent advances in MR coronary angiography and flow mapping are volume coronary angiongraphy with targeted scans, navigator gated angiography, contrast-enhanced angiography, and breath-hold or navigator gated flow sequences. Future approaches, such as navigator gated fast MR techniques resulting in high-resolution angiography in combination with breath-hold MR flow mapping with high temporal resolution, might allow a comprehensive evaluation of bypass graft stenosis and function. This review article will address the major issues concerning the MR evaluation of bypass grafts.
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