Quantification of lung water in heart failure using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract Background Pulmonary edema is a cardinal feature of heart failure but no quantitative tests are available in clinical practice. The goals of this study were to develop a simple cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) approach for lung water quantification, to correlate CMR derived lung wate...

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Main Authors: Richard B. Thompson, Kelvin Chow, Joseph J. Pagano, Viktor Sekowski, Evangelos D. Michelakis, Wayne Tymchak, Mark J. Haykowsky, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Gavin Y. Oudit, Jason R. B. Dyck, Padma Kaul, Anamaria Savu, D. Ian Paterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12968-019-0567-y