This article is part of the supplement: Abstracts of the 12th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions – 2009 .

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Integrated analysis of diastolic, systolic and pulmonary vascular function using MRI guided catheterization

Boris Schmitt¹, Paul Steendjik², Karsten Lunze¹, Stanislav Ovrouski¹, Jan Falkenberg¹, Pedram Rahmanzadeh¹, Nizar Maarouf¹, Peter Ewert¹, Felix Berger¹ and Titus Kuehne¹

¹  Unit of Cardiovascular Imaging – Congenital Heart Diseases, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

²  Cardiology, Medical University Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands

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from 12^th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions
Orlando, FL, USA. 29 January–1 February 2009

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2009, 11(Suppl 1):O9doi:10.1186/1532-429X-11-S1-O9

Published:	28 January 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

An integrated approach for assessing ventricular pump function, diastolic compliance (EDPVR), myocontractility and pulmonary vascular resistance would be of clinical interest. In addition to pump function, MRI guided catheterization was demonstrated to accurately measure myocontractility and vascular resistance. We now extended this method for acquisition of the EDPVR. Subsequently, this approach was applied in patients with Fontan hemodynamic in which abnormalities in pulmonary vascular, myocontractile and diastolic properties are debated.