Due to improvements of surgical and interventional methods, the survival rate of patients with congenital heart disease has been increasing steadily. Therefore more patients require accurate follow up examinations of their morphologic and functional cardiovascular status, preferable with a noninvasive imaging technique.
In general, cardiac magnetic resonance is considered to be the best method to measure right and left ventricular volumes. The aim of this study was to determine whether short-axis or axial slices are more reliable for routine measurement of RV and LV volumes of patients with Morbus Ebstein. For right and left ventricular volumes, inter- and intraobserver variance was smaller using axial slices than using short-axis slices in end-diastole and end-systole.
To sum up, axial slices are more reproducible than short-axis slices for measuring ventricular volumes of patients with Morbus Ebstein by CMR.
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Due to improvements of surgical and interventional methods, the survival rate of patients with congenital heart disease has been increasing steadily. Therefore more patients require accurate follow up examinations of their morphologic and functional cardiovascular status, preferable with a noninvasive imaging technique.
In general, cardiac magnetic resonance is considered to be the best method to measure right and left ventricular volumes. The aim of this study was to determine whether short-ax...
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