"Where is the Heart?" When Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Helps if Echocardiography is Inconclusive.
J Cardiovasc Echogr
; 29(2): 82-85, 2019.
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ABSTRACT
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard technique to comprehensively assess cardiac structure and function. A 64-year-old male, planned for surgical coronary revascularization, underwent transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography for a mitral regurgitation, with an eccentric jet of unclear mechanism; these examinations were inconclusive because of the lack of adequate visualization of the cardiac structures. A CMR was then performed to quantify mitral regurgitation and, additionally, it documented a giant hiatus hernia with gastric sliding into the thorax. In this case, CMR helped to better define the severity of a valvular disease and provided ancillary information from the extracardiac findings.
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J Cardiovasc Echogr
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2019
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