Case 226: Diagnosing Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture without Aneurysm
Diagnosing ventricular free wall rupture is not difficult, though these patients rarely come for cardiac MRI, since they are usually serious and clinically unstable.
Diagnosing ventricular free wall rupture is not difficult, though these patients rarely come for cardiac MRI, since they are usually serious and clinically unstable.
How to diagnose papillary muscle infarction and rupture using all the information we can get from all the routine sequences we obtain
In patients with PH, radiologists can make a difference in identifying a few pathologies as causes of PH (leaving aside known cardiac and pulmonary diseases, where the conditions are already known). We should not miss these, especially shunts.
Ischemia in apical HCM appears to be universal and may be manifest at presentation or on follow-up.
Persistent MVO carries a poor prognosis
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