Myocardial iron quantification using modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) T1 mapping at 3 Tesla

Highlights of the 16th annual scientific sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

“…John Greenwood adds to this by presenting new data from the CE-MARC trial suggesting that strategies the utilize stress CMR first followed by invasive coronary angiography if the CMR study is abnormal or inconclusive may be more cost-effective when compared to a SPECT first strategy [42]. Similarly, Sebastian Kelle showed the cost-effectiveness of strategies for the assessment of stable coronary artery disease that utilize dobutamine stress to identify patients who might benefit from a coronary angiogram rather than sending all patients directly to cardiac catheterization [43]. Using a Markov analysis, Steffen Petersen presented data suggesting that the cost-effectiveness of a diagnostic strategy was dependent on the pretest probability of having coronary artery disease.…”