Clinical Atlas of Cardiac and Aortic CT and MRI
- Buenos Aires Argentina Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
- 373 Pages
Includes Index
In the past few decades, cardiac CT and MRI have rapidly shifted from appealing research tools, to adjuvant diagnostic strategies, and ultimately to a fundamental role in a wide range of ischemic and nonischemic diseases. In parallel, structural heart disease, closely related to the recent surge of several noncoronary percutaneous interventions, has underwent an enormous growth both in terms of number of procedures and variety of interventions. Indeed, these imaging techniques are revolutionizing the diagnostic and therapeutic approach of cardiovascular patients and progressively becoming attractive subspecialties among radiologists and cardiologists. In routine clinical practice, cardiac and aortic CT and/or MRI are performed to define diagnosis among patients with inconclusive findings, nondiagnostic tests, rare diseases, to improve characterization of specific entities such as cardiomyopathies, and/or as guidance and surveillance of percutaneous interventions such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement and endovascular aortic repair, among others. Consequently, cardiologists and/or radiologists involved in the evaluation of these patients are regularly confronted to challenging unusual cases. Furthermore, such physicians are usually implicated in both imaging fields. Based on the abovementioned reasons, rather than extensive and technically detailed textbooks, there is an unmet need for a concise, specific, case-report-based text aimed at describing the main findings, key features, and most frequent variants that can be found on a daily basis. For this purpose, we collected a thorough sample of the most common and uncommon cases that are evaluated in routine practice of an imaging facility (Diagnostico Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina), provided in their clinical context. Moreover, renowned experts from other institutions provide additional exceptional cases, particularly involving rare diseases such as congenital heart disease and cardiac tumors. Cases are arranged within the following nine main chapters: (1) Cardiac Anatomy and Coronary Anomalies; (2) Ischemic Cardiomyopathy; (3) Myocardial Infarction with Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries; (4) Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy; (5) Structural Heart Disease and Guidance of Percutaneous Procedures; (6) Congenital Heart Disease; (7) Cardiac Masses and Tumors; (8) Pericardial Disease; and (9) Aortic Disease We definitively believe this will become a very useful reference not only for the radiology/ cardiology resident, fellow, or general practitioner, but also for the cardiovascular imaging specialist. Each case is placed in its clinical context and has an introductory text discussing key clinical and imaging features. Furthermore, all cases have a very brief concluding text describing the pathology, prognosis, and therapeutic options based on the clinical presentation and key CT and MR imaging features, thus facilitating a more comprehensive pathology-oriented-approach. Clinical Atlas of Cardiac and Aortic CT and MRI therefore provides a valuable resource for both specialist and nonspecialist practitioners who are seeking to recognize and understand the features of a variety of heart and aortic diseases using CT and MR imaging techniques.