Key result
CT and MRI complement echocardiography for evaluating complex cyanogenic cardiovascular malformations.
Why the study?
Echocardiography has a limited role in assessing cyanogenic cardiovascular malformations involving right heart and pulmonary circulation anomalies, necessitating complementary imaging techniques.
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May inform imaging selection in complex cyanogenic CVM; leaves open standardized multimodal protocols.
The diagnosis of cardiovascular malformations (CVM) is based on the echocardiographic evaluation. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are performant, necessary techniques for the pre- and postoperative assessment of complex malformations, especially of cyanogenic malformations, in which anomalies of the right side of the heart and of the pulmonary circulation are involved and where echocardiography has a limited role. The complementarity of echocardiography with MDCT and MRI for the acquisition of the details necessary for an accurate therapeutic decision and for avoiding invasive exploration, as well as the close relationship between the radiologist and the clinician are crucial and all the more necessary in complex malformations.
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Simona Manolé (2013) conducted a review in Cyanogenic cardiovascular malformations. Echocardiography, MDCT, and MRI was evaluated. Multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are complementary to echocardiography for the assessment of complex cyanogenic cardiovascular malformations.
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