title: Echocardiography and imaging investigation in congenital cardiovascular anomalies - competition or complementarity? Part II: cyanogenic cardiovascular malformations. Pictorial essay.
abstract: The diagnosis of cardiovascular malformations (CVM) is based on the echocardiographic evaluation. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are performant, necessary techniques for the pre- and postoperative assessment of complex malformations, especially of cyanogenic malformations, in which anomalies of the right side of the heart and of the pulmonary circulation are involved and where echocardiography has a limited role. The complementarity of echocardiography with MDCT and MRI for the acquisition of the details necessary for an accurate therapeutic decision and for avoiding invasive exploration, as well as the close relationship between the radiologist and the clinician are crucial and all the more necessary in complex malformations.
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. simona.manole@gmail.com
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manole
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Opriţa
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Encica
authors.forename: Mircea
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cotul
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chira
authors.forename: Viorel
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Manole
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Iacob
authors.forename: Sorin M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Dudea
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*