Relationship of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Estimation of Myocardial Iron to Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function in Thalassemia

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 572-578

  Leonardi, Benedetta ^a   Margossian, Renee ^a   Colan, Steven D ^a   Powell, Andrew J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac siderosis; diastolic function; myocardial T2*; thalassemia

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; IRON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECELERATION; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; MALE; MUSCLE LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IRON; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; IRON OVERLOAD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; STROKE VOLUME; THALASSEMIA; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51549100989     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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