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Cardiac MRI in postoperative congenital heart disease patients
Author(s) -
van der Hulst Annelies E.,
Roest Arno A.W.,
Westenberg Jos J.M.,
Kroft Lucia J.M.,
de Roos Albert
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.23604
Subject(s) - medicine , great arteries , tetralogy of fallot , cardiology , heart disease , coarctation of the aorta , ventricle , radiology , aorta
The survival of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) has greatly improved over the past decades. Nevertheless, lifelong follow‐up is required in postoperative CHD patients, and noninvasive imaging plays an important role during follow‐up. Cardiac MR (CMR) imaging enables comprehensive imaging of cardiac function and anatomy, and helps to detect patients who need re‐intervention and to predict clinical outcome. Postoperative CHD patients who are frequently referred for CMR evaluation include those with coarctation of the aorta, tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, and single ventricle patients after the Fontan procedure. This article reviews the current clinical role of CMR in these various subgroups of postoperative CHD patients. Furthermore, an overview of novel CMR applications and their clinical value in CHD patients is provided. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2012;36:511–528. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.