Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE

Publication Details

• Real-time color-flow CMR in adults with congenital heart disease.

  de la Pena E, Nguyen PK, Nayak KS, Yang PC, Rosenthal DN, Hu BS, Pauly JM, McConnell MV. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2006; 8 (6): 809-15

  CMR is valuable in the evaluation of congenital heart disease (CHD). Traditional flow imaging sequences involve cardiac and respiratory gating, increasing scan time and susceptibility to arrhythmias. We studied a real-time color-flow CMR system for the detection of flow abnormalities in 13 adults with CHD. All 16 congenital flow abnormalities previously detected by echocardiography were visualized using color-flow CMR, including atrial septal defects (n = 4), ventricular septal defects (n = 9), aortic coarctation (n = 1), Blalock-Taussig shunt (n = 1) and Fontan shunt (n = 1). Real-time color-flow CMR can identify intra- and extra-cardiac flow abnormalities in adults with congenital heart disease.

  PubMedID: 17060103