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Cardiac MRI and CT are increasingly used for evaluating heart pathologies, with MRI focusing on perfusion and cardiomyopathies, and CT mainly used to rule out coronary artery disease.
Cardiac MRI and CT are established modalities for evaluating various cardiac pathologies, including cardiomyopathies, valvular diseases, and coronary artery disease.
May inform imaging referral patterns; leaves open optimal integration and cost-effectiveness pending prospective trials.
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scan have made big inroads as modalities used for evaluation of various pathologies of the heart. Cardiac MRI is typically used for perfusion and viability studies as well as to study various cardiomyopathies, valvular diseases and the pericardium. It has been used in the evaluation of congenital heart diseases over the last two decades. Cardiac CT is used mainly for the evaluation of the coronary arteries, typically in the setting of "to rule out coronary artery disease".
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Jankharia et al. (2010) conducted a review in Pathologies of the heart. Cardiac MRI and CT was evaluated. Cardiac MRI and CT are increasingly used for evaluating heart pathologies, with MRI focusing on perfusion and cardiomyopathies, and CT mainly used to rule out coronary artery disease.
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