PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dudley J Pennell
TI  - Cardiovascular magnetic resonance: twenty-first century solutions in cardiology
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.3-3-273
DP  - 2003 May 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 273--278
VI  - 3
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/3/273.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/3/273.full
SO  - Clin Med2003 May 01; 3
AB  - Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a rapidly developing new field in cardiology. It is beginning to contribute to greater understanding of diagnosis and management of hitherto difficult clinical conditions and is invaluable for research programmes, where its resolution, accuracy and reproducibility allow studies to be performed more quickly and cheaply than in the past. This article emphasises the use of CMR in preventing cardiovascular disease, such as ventricular remodelling after infarction, the genetic control of left ventricular hypertrophy, cardiomyopathies, high resolution myocardial perfusion in cardiac syndrome X, and detection of early stage atherosclerosis.