Pericardium
Pericardium
Infective Endocarditis
Cardiac MRI does not show vegetations, easily especially if small. However, evaluating the transaxials through the valve may help pick up small nodules and to rule out mimics.
Physics
Infections
Infarcts
Diagnosing ventricular free wall rupture is not difficult, though these patients rarely come for cardiac MRI, since they are usually serious and clinically unstable.
Cardiomyopathy
Infarcts
Infarcts
Infarcts
How to diagnose papillary muscle infarction and rupture using all the information we can get from all the routine sequences we obtain
Pulmonary Hypertension
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.
HCM
Cardiomyopathy
IMH
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Ischemia in apical HCM appears to be universal and may be manifest at presentation or on follow-up.
Cardiomyopathy
Viability
Persistent MVO carries a poor prognosis