title: [Heart failure: role of cardiovascular imaging].
abstract: The usefulness of echocardiography and the new noninvasive cardiac techniques in assessing heart failure is analyzed. The usefulness of non-invasive CT coronary angiography, as well as the growing applications of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the study of ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is considered. For this puspose, some clinical cases are used. The combined use of these techniques, especially in patients in whom the etiology of heart failure is ischemic heart disease or cardiomyopathy is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso ,Chile; Clínica Reñaca, Valparaíso, Chile. Address: 4 Poniente 322, Viña del Mar, Region de Valparaiso, Chile. Email: diaz.rienzi@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rienzi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Díaz Navarro
mesh_terms: D019571:Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000072226:Computed Tomography Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging
keywords:  cardiac magnetic resonance imaging;  coronary artery disease;  coronary computed tomography angiography;  heart failure; echocardiography