- Author
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Soha Romeih
- Title
- Assessment of cardiac function and hemodynamics in children and adults with right ventricular pressure overload: role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
- Supervisors
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N.A. Blom
B.J.M. Mulder - Co-supervisors
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M. Groenink
A.M. Spijkerboer - Award date
- 6 February 2014
- Number of pages
- 168
- ISBN
- 9789090280424
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA)
- Abstract
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Accumulating evidence suggests that pressure overload on the right ventricle (RV) leads to RV dysfunction, with considerable morbidity and mortality. Therefore, appropriate RV evaluation is essential because timely intervention may preserve RV function and prevent irreversible RV damage. Currently, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the imaging modality of choice for RV functional evaluation and cardiac flow quantification. Through its unlimited access to the chest, CMR permits a detailed morphological assessment of the whole RV and the pulmonary artery tree in a single comprehensive examination. CMR has several technical advantages: it is non-invasive, has excellent spatial resolution, images can be obtained in any desired orientation, and there are no acoustic window limitations or radiation risks. In this thesis, the assessment of cardiac function and hemodynamics in children and adults with right ventricular pressure overload using CMR is discussed.
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.406147
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Thesis
Cover
Title pages
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction and outline of the thesis
Chapter 2: Exercise capacity and cardiac reserve in children and adolescents with corrected pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum after univentricular palliation and biventricular repair
Chapter 3: Effect of age on exercise capacity and cardiac reserve in patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum after biventricular repair
Chapter 4: Impaired cardiac reserve in asymptomatic patients with moderate pulmonary restenosis late after relief of severe pulmonary stenosis: evidence for diastolic dysfunction
Chapter 5: Delayed improvement of right ventricular diastolic function and regression of right ventricular mass after percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation in patients with congenital heart disease
Chapter 6: Recovery of right and left ventricular function after acute pulmonary embolism
Chapter 7: Evaluating the systemic right ventricle by CMR: short axis or axial slices?
Chapter 8: Is cardiac CT a reproducible alternative for cardiac MR in adult patients with a systemic right ventricle?
Chapter 9: Comparison of contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography with invasive cardiac catheterization for evaluation of children with pulmonary atresia
Chapter 10: Pulmonary flow profile and distensibility following acute pulmonary embolism
Chapter 11: Nonuniformly distributed flow patterns after Melody ® implantation: implications for focal elevated pulmonary wall shear rates with right ventricular function
Chapter 12: Summary & Samenvatting
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