Assessment of adult congenital heart disease with multi-detector computed tomography: beyond coronary lumenography.
Adult congenital heart disease is an increasingly prevalent condition with more than 135,000 patients affected in England alone. With this increased patient population and an increase in interventional procedures being performed on them, traditional imaging techniques such as cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) may be unavailable locally or contra-indicated. Cardiac multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is rapidly emerging as an alternative imaging method for the investigation of these patients and this review highlights the broad application of cardiac MDCT to this population and makes recommendations on the standardized reporting of complex congenital heart disease.
Nicol
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Department of Radiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. e.nicol@rbht.nhs.uk
Gatzoulis
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Padley
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Rubens
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D000328:Adult; D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*