Clinical indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR): Consensus panel report

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 727-765

  Pennell, Dudley J ^a   Sechtem, Udo P ^a   Higgins, Charles B ^a   Manning, Warren J ^a   Pohost, Gerald M ^a   Rademakers, Frank E ^a   Van Rossum, Albert C ^a   Shaw, Leslee J ^a   Yucel, E Kent ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RENAL ARTERY; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 11144352844     PISSN: 10976647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JCMR-200038581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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