Open AccessQuantitative cardiac magnetic resonance T2 imaging offers ability to non-invasively predict acute allograft rejection in children
Author(s) -
Neeta Sethi,
Ashish N. Doshi,
Tina L. Doshi,
Russell Cross,
Ileen Cronin,
Elena K. Amin,
Joshua Kanter,
Janet Scheel,
Seema Khan,
Adrienne E Campbell-Washburn,
Laura Olivieri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cardiology in the young
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1467-1107
pISSN - 1047-9511
DOI - 10.1017/s104795112000116x
Subject(s) - medicine , endomyocardial biopsy , magnetic resonance imaging , cardiac magnetic resonance , biopsy , gold standard (test) , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , transplantation , cardiology , radiology , heart transplantation
Monitoring for acute allograft rejection improves outcomes after cardiac transplantation. Endomyocardial biopsy is the gold standard test defining rejection, but carries risk and has limitations. Cardiac magnetic resonance T2 mapping may be able to predict rejection in adults, but has not been studied in children. Our aim was to evaluate T2 mapping in identifying paediatric cardiac transplant patients with acute rejection.