Congenital heart disease in adults and adolescents: comparative value of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and MR imaging.

Abstract

Transesophageal echocardiography and MR imaging are beneficial complementary imaging techniques in adults or adolescents with congenital heart disease.

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Imaging Findings in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

“…Transesophageal echocardiography helps define wall motion abnormality (22,24), and newer and faster magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in cine acquisition mode may allow noninvasive evaluation (26). In addition, exercise electrocardiography and myocardial scintigraphy may help define reversible ischemia, typically from accelerated atherosclerosis, that is amenable to surgery or intravascular therapy in SLE patients with symptoms of myocardial disease (6,23).…”

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