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Stress Echocardiography Versus Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Recently, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has emerged as a new noninvasive imaging modality providing high-resolution images in any desired plane of the heart, combined with the potential to assess and monitor regional left and right ventricular function [1]. Moreover, the tremendously improved temporal resolution of new fast-gradient echo CMR sequences such as TrueFISP, FFE or FIESTA makes it possible to capture cine loops displaying the beating heart, allowing the quantification of wall motion as well as of end-diastolic and end-systolic still frames, with well-defined endocardial and epicardial borders, making the quantification of chamber volumes and myocardial wall thickness easy [1]. This explains the development of a number of CMR stress techniques, which compete against stress echocardiography for the evaluation of reversible myocardial ischemia and postischemic myocardial viability in the clinical routine. Furthermore, new CMR methods assessing ischemia or myocardial viability by perfusion and late contrast enhancement MR imaging have recently been established. These new techniques not only use the setting of a stress test but also compete with stress echocardiography.

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Mahrholdt, H., Wagner, A., Judd, R.M., Sechtem, U. (2003). Stress Echocardiography Versus Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Stress Echocardiography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05096-5_35

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