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Bands, Chords, Tendons, and Membranes in the Heart: An Imaging Overview
- Source :
- Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 45:380-391
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Crests, bands, chords, and membranes can be seen within the different cardiac chambers, with variable clinical significance. They can be incidental or can have clinical implications by causing hemodynamic disturbance. It is crucial to know the morphology and orientation of normal structures, aberrant or accessory muscles, and abnormal membranes to diagnose the hemodynamic disturbance associated with them. Newer generation computed tomographic scanners and faster magnetic resonance imaging sequences offer high spatial and temporal resolution allowing for acquisition of high resolution images of the cardiac chambers improving identification of small internal structures, such as papillary muscles, muscular bands, chords, and membranes. They also help in identification of other associated complications, malformations, and provide a road map for treatment. In this article, we review cross-sectional cardiac imaging findings of normal anatomical variants and distinctive imaging features of pathologic bands, chords, or membranes, which may produce significant hemodynamic changes and clinical symptomatology.
- Subjects :
- Diagnostic Imaging
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
High resolution
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Computed tomographic
Tendons
Electrocardiography
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Clinical significance
030212 general & internal medicine
Muscle, Skeletal
Cardiac imaging
Membranes
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Orientation (computer vision)
Heart
Magnetic resonance imaging
Anatomy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Muscles of respiration
Membrane
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03630188
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9dd3c478140b7872ee5679ecf8113612