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Echocardiography, CT coronarography, and cardiac MRI serve as essential complementary imaging modalities for the evaluation and management of patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
Multimodality cardiac imaging is crucial for identifying the structural, functional, and ischemic substrates underlying both atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.
May aid arrhythmia evaluation in valvular disease; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Cardiac arrhythmias occur frequently in valvular patients. In valvular patients the role of echocardiography is essential, due to prognostic variations. A common indication of CT coronarography is the evaluation of the coronary arteries, with the highlighting of the light coronary plaques, but also accurately measures the dimensions of the left atrium and the anatomy of the pulmonary veins. In the last years cardiac MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) has been used in the clinic and research media to establish the gold standard measurement for the volumes of heart cavities, their function and tissue structure. All these three methods are essential for the evaluation and treatment of the cardiac patient with important arrhythmia.
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Batâr et al. (2019) conducted a review in Cardiac arrhythmias. Cardiac imaging (Echocardiography, CT coronarography, Cardiac MRI) was evaluated. Echocardiography, CT coronarography, and cardiac MRI serve as essential complementary imaging modalities for the evaluation and management of patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
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