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Review
Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease
  1. John B Chambers1,
  2. Saul G Myerson2,
  3. Ronak Rajani3,
  4. Gareth J Morgan-Hughes4 and
  5. Marc R Dweck5
  6. on behalf of the British Heart Valve Society
  1. 1Department of Adult Echocardiography, Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals, London, UK
  2. 2Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
  3. 3Department of Cardiac CT, Guy's and St Thomas Hospitals, London, UK
  4. 4Cardiac Department, Derriford Road Hospital, Plymouth, UK
  5. 5Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor John B Chambers; john.chambers{at}gstt.nhs.uk

Abstract

In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the timing of surgery and determine risk. This statement discusses the way these imaging techniques are currently integrated to improve care beyond what is possible with echocardiography alone.

  • VALVULAR DISEASE

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https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2015-000330

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