Role of imaging techniques for diagnosis, prognosis and management of heart failure patients: Cardiac magnetic resonance

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 276-283

  Gonzalez, Jorge A ^a   Kramer, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiacmagnetic resonance (CMR); Cardiomyopathies; Heart failure (HF); Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF); Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); Infiltrative cardiomyopathies; Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE); Left ventricular dysfunction (LV dysfunction); T1 mapping; T2 Imaging; T2 mapping; T2 weighted images

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84943349121     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-015-0261-9     Document Type: Article

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