title: Cardiac MRI in Congenital Heart Disease - Our Experience.
abstract: A significant recent advance that has occurred world over in the continuously evolving field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) practice is the introduction of Cardiac applications. Cardiac MRI has moved to the centre stage of clinical management strategy by non-invasively imaging the structure as well as function of the heart. It has a wide range of specific applications such as delineation of morphological anatomy, quantification of flow and pressure across cardiac valve dysfunction, evaluation of myocardial function, assessment of infarcts, mapping coronary arteries and so on. Evaluation of congenital heart disease (CHD) is an important application of Cardiac MRI since the morphological details of chambers, septum, defects and anomalous connections are depicted accurately. Besides, flow information across valves, chambers, outflow tracts and shunts are also provided. This article describes our experience in the use of cardiac MRI in congenital heart disease.
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune-40.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Sreedhar
authors.affiliation: Professor & Head, Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune-40.
authors.forename: Mn Sree
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune-40.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Radiodiagnosis and Imaging), INHS Asvini, Mumbai.
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Indrajit
keywords: Cardiac MRI; Congenital heart disease; Cyanotic and Acyanotic heart disease