title: [Current indications for cardiac MR imaging].
abstract: MRI has acquired over the years a role in the evaluation of cardiovascular pathology especially with regards to its ability to assess right and left ventricular function and delayed postcontrast "viability" sequences. Current class I clinical indications include: viability for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and acute coronary syndrome, etiology and prognostic evaluation of non-ischemic cardiomyopathies including myocarditis and arrhytmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, chronic pericarditis and cardiac masses, non-urgent aortic aneurysm and dissection, congenital cardiopathies: vascular malformations and follow-up after curative or palliative surgery. MRI provides a complete non operator dependent evaluation, and is particularly useful for follow-up since it may be repeated due to its absence of ionizing radiation
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie thoracique et vasculaire, Centre Hémodynamique et vasculaire interventionnel, Hôpital Laënnec, CHU de Nantes, 44093 Nantes cedex 1, France. dcrochet@chu-nantes.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crochet
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Helft
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chassaing
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Revel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furber
mesh_terms: D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*