title: [Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in childhood - clinical indications and case studies].
abstract: In today's clinical practice cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is increasingly used for assessment of congenital and acquired heart disease in children. CMR complements echocardiography and provides a noninvasive alternative to diagnostic cardiac catheterization. In contrast to echocardiography, CMR is not limited by acoustic windows, and unlike cardiac catheterization, CMR lacks ionizing radiation. Contiguous three and four dimensional data sets allow to display cardiac and thoracic vessel anatomy in any desired imaging plane. These characteristics provide unique images for the complete depiction of the pathological anatomy in particular in congenital heart disease. Furthermore CMR is also used for assessment of cardiac function, blood-flow measurements, tissue characterization, and, more recently, for evaluation of myocardial perfusion and viability. The following article reviews CMR indications in pediatric cardiology by means of clinical examples.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Kinderkardiologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Voges
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jerosch-Herold
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Plagemann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Helle
authors.forename: H-H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rickers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007223:Infant; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity