Cardiac magnetic resonance in adults with congenital heart disease.
Increasing numbers of adults with congenital heart disease are referred for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Knowledge of the congenital heart anatomy, prior surgical interventions, and the development of an imaging focus for each individual patient plays a crucial role when performing a successful cardiac magnetic resonance imaging examination. The following manuscript focuses on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging considerations of three specific conotruncal congenital heart lesions: tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries (TGA), and physiologically corrected TGA (c-TGA).
Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sara L
SL
Partington
Anne Marie
AM
Valente
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000379:methods*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*
adult congenital heart disease; cardiac imaging; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; conotruncal congenital heart lesions; tetralogy of Fallot; transposition of the great arteries