Novel Techniques for Imaging the Heart: Cardiac MR and CT

Brings the recent dramatic changes in the field of cardiovascular imaging into the clinical setting to enable the clinician to best use the technology at hand.

The book opens with three chapters reviewing the general considerations and fundamentals of imaging, followed by a series of chapters that address clinical applications of CT and CMR, including:

• Critical review of imaging approaches for diagnosis and prognosis of CAD
• Evaluating the patient with new onset heart failure
• Evaluating the patient before non-cardiac surgery
• Evaluating the patient before interventional electrophysiology
• Novel assessment of vascular flow and valvular disease
• Relative merits of CTA and MRA for coronary artery imaging

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Di Carli, Marcelo F.; Kwong, Raymond Y.

ISBN:

978-1-40-517533-3

Specialty:

• Cardiology
• Internal Medicine

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

384

Publication Year:

2008