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Open Heart. 2016 Mar 08;3(1):e000330. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2015-000330. eCollection 2016.

Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease.

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John B Chambers, Saul G Myerson, Ronak Rajani, Gareth J Morgan-Hughes, Marc R Dweck

Affiliations

  1. Department of Adult Echocardiography , Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals , London , UK.
  2. Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , UK.
  3. Department of Cardiac CT , Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals , London , UK.
  4. Cardiac Department , Derriford Road Hospital , Plymouth , UK.
  5. Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK.

PMID: 26977308 PMCID: PMC4785435 DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2015-000330

Abstract

In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the timing of surgery and determine risk. This statement discusses the way these imaging techniques are currently integrated to improve care beyond what is possible with echocardiography alone.

Keywords: VALVULAR DISEASE

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