Cine magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis of right coronary arterial-ventricular fistula.
In two cases of coronary arterial-ventricular fistula, detailed morphologic evaluation of the affected coronary artery was performed by MRI. Cine-MRI enabled both identification of the fistula and evaluation of the direction of shunt blood flow. Thus, MRI is a valuable noninvasive procedure in the anatomic and physiologic diagnosis of coronary arterial fistula.
Kubota
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, Japan.
Suzuki
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Murata
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D000328:Adult; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged