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Abstract
Cardiac MRI has become a clinically useful supplement to Echo and conventional x-ray angiography in the diagnostic work-up of patients with congenital heart disease.
The aim of this work is to evaluate the role of MR imaging in assessment of morphological (intra and extracardiac anatomy) and functional parameters (whenever possible) of congenital heart diseases.
The study was conducted on 40 patients including both pediatric (31 patients) and adult patients (9 patients). The patients were referred from the cardiology department, Kasr El Aini Hospital and the Children Hospital (Abu El Reesh), Cairo University. All patients were submitted to both echocardiographic examination and MRI study. Cardiac catheterization was performed in 13 cases.
Conventional spin echo, b-FFE/BH and CE-MRA were done for the patients. Ventricular volumes were calculated for a selected group of patients. MRI results were comparable to Echo and cardiac catheterization.