By Bruno Kastler

MRI is a non-invasive and non-ionizing imaging modality that's ideally fitted for the prognosis and follow-up of either pediatric and grownup congenital middle affliction. It presents a wide box of view and has the original skill to depict advanced cardiac and vascular anatomy and to degree cardiac functionality and stream inside of one exam. MRI is the precise supplement to echocardiography at any time when the data supplied by way of the latter is restricted.

This booklet has been conceived as a self-teaching guide that would help certified radiologists, cardiologists, and pediatricians, in addition to these in education. it's richly illustrated with a number of photos and drawings that disguise all traditional and most unique anomalies. The vital writer, Professor Bruno Kastler, is head of radiology at Besançon collage medical institution, France and is board qualified in either radiology and cardiology.

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A–d) Craniocaudad series of axial images: the dilated pulmonary trunk is clearly visualized (3) together with its division into left and right branches.

19b and Chap. 6), and/or a single coronary artery. 6). isomerism, a single ventricle is uncommon. Anomalies of the ventriculoarterial connection (left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, coarctation or hypoplasia of the aorta) may also be observed. Ventriculoarterial discordances corresponding to transposition (particularly simple D-transposition that will be discussed below) and pulmonary stenosis are observed less frequently than in right isomerism. Abdominal anomalies are frequently associated (intestinal malrotation, extrahepatic biliary atresia).

2, Figs. 7; Chap. 24). (b) Coronal image of the bronchial bifurca- tion and the abdomen. 1 Right–left pulmonary asymmetry: short, vertical, eparterial right main bronchus (11d) (which divides into the right upper lobe bronchus and right middle lobe bronchus) and long, horizontal, hyparterial left main bronchus (11g) (which divides into left upper lobe and left lower lobe bronchi). The left pulmonary artery (3g) has an anteroposterior course (in a slightly left oblique plane) and is seen on this image passing above the left main bronchus (also see Chap.

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