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Is short-axis imaging of the LV obligatorily the most accurate method for non-invasive quantitation of the mass of the heart?

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Non-invasive LV mass quantitation is an important clinical metric with considerable ramifications that include substantial morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) has been demonstrated to be the 'gold standard' for the quantification of LV mass for almost two decades chiefly defined by its high spatial resolution affording very low variability. Over the last two decades the technique has evolved typically, into contiguous, 2D short-axis (SA) orientations as the standard for CMR cardiac mass quantitation, believed to be inherently most accurate. However, as compared to other techniques wherein accuracy suffers from inability to define endocardial/epicardial borders, any inaccuracy CMR suffers is now predominantly governed by the basal-plane acquisition whereupon exact discrimination of the AV-valve plane is arduous.

Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-11-s1-p255