Update on cardiac imaging techniques 2012.
Cardiac imaging is one of the basic pillars of modern cardiology. The potential list of scenarios where cardiac imaging techniques can provide relevant information is simply endless so it is impossible to include all relevant new features of cardiac imaging published in the literature in 2012 in the limited format of a single article. We summarize the year's most relevant news on cardiac imaging, highlighting the ongoing development of myocardial deformation and 3-dimensional echocardiography techniques and the increasing use of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in daily clinical practice.
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: josejgd@gmail.com.
José J
JJ
Gómez de Diego
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain.
Rocío
R
García-Orta
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Patricia
P
Mahía-Casado
Departamento de Cardiología, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
Joaquín
J
Barba-Cosials
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
Jaume
J
Candell-Riera
D057791:Cardiac Imaging Techniques; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed