TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patricia M. Carrascosa 
AU  -  Carlos M. Capuñay 
AU  - Alejandro Deviggiano 
AU  - Gastón A. Rodríguez-Granillo 
TI  - Clinical Atlas of Cardiac and Aortic CT and MRI
SN  - 9783030036812
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Buenos Aires Argentina
PB  -  Springer Nature Switzerland AG 
KW  - Cardiology
N1  - Includes Index
N2  - 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
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