Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Right Ventricular Disease
MMP Tong, KT Wong
Hong Kong J Radiol 2018;21:228-40
DOI: 10.12809/hkjr1816998
Cardiac magnetic resonance is an increasingly popular tool for assessing cardiac anatomy and function, as well as disease pathology, in an objective and comprehensive manner. Establishing diagnosis of diseases involving the right ventricle by traditional transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography is challenging owing to the peculiar anatomy and retrosternal position of the right ventricle, and chest wall status of the patient. Cardiac magnetic resonance has proven a valuable examination tool in the assessment of the right ventricle in a radiation-free and non-invasive manner. This review describes how cardiac magnetic resonance can nicely depict right ventricle anatomy, morphology, and function, and can aid radiologists and clinicians in assessing diseases involving the right ventricle.
Author affiliation(s):
MMP Tong: Department of Radiology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan, Hong Kong
KT Wong: Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
中文摘要
右心室病的心臟磁共振成像
唐美寶、黃嘉德
心臟磁共振已成為日趨普遍的評估工具，以客觀和全面的角度評估心臟解剖學和功能以及疾病病理學。因為右心室的特殊解剖結構和胸骨後位置以及患者的胸壁狀態，以傳統經胸二維超聲心電圖確診右心室疾病比較困難。事實證明，心臟磁共振能無輻射和非侵入地有效評估右心室狀態。本文綜述心臟磁共振如何恰當描述右心室的解剖結構、形態和功能，幫助放射科醫生和臨床醫生評估涉及右心室的疾病。