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Cases of the Week 2009


Number 09-19: Pulmonary embolism by CMR
History: A 34-year-old white female with a history of anxiety, mild asthma, and allergic rhinitis was recently hospitalized with an episode of SVT

Number 09-18: Traumatic interventricular septal dissection
History: A 15-year-old boy fell down into a 10 meters gutter, he was found spleen bleeding and pansystolic cardiac murmur at the left sternal border without rib fracture.

Number 09-17: Characterization of a left atrial anomaly with CMR
History: A 67-year-old female with hypertension presented with a 5-month history of exertional chest pain and dyspnea.

Number 09-16: A large and mysterious mass in the LV
History: A 59 y/o female with history of breast CA s/p right lumpectomy and ovarian CA was referred for CMR

Number 09-15: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy?
History: CMR in possible Peripartum Cardiomyopathy demonstrates Duchenne muscular dystrophy in a carrier - scar burden reinforces decision for ICD implantation

Number 09-14: CMR in Systemic Sclerosis
History: A 28 years old female with Scleroderma (SSc) for 11 years and acute angina and elevated creatine kinase (CK).

Number 09-13: Severe AI in a bicuspid AV assessed with CMR
History: A nice example of how CMR can be used to evaluate the severity of AI using cine and phase contrast CMR imaging.

Number 09-12: Role of CMR in acute myocardial infarction, primary angioplasty, and autologous stem cell therapy
History: 50 y/o male with a 3 week history of accelerated angina...

Number 09-11: Gerbode Ventricular Septal Defect after Ross Procedure
History: A 26-year-old male patient with past medical history of aortic coarctation repair...

Number 09-10: An unusual complication of the Ross procedure and the role of CMR in its assessment
History: A 26 year old male had previously undergone a Ross procedure for a stenosed bicuspid aortic valve when aged 17yrs.

Number 09-09: Left Atrial Appendage Clot and Atrial Fibrillation
History: Atrial appendage thrombus post thoracoscopic atrial appendage amputation imaged with CMR.

Number 09-08: Syncopal Event in a Case of Kawasaki's
History: Kawasaki's Disease and Atrial Septal Aneurysm. Single imaging modality for complete assessment.

Number 09-07: All That Elevates Is Not Plaque Rupture
History: A 75-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation

Number 09-06: Heterogeneous etiologies affecting a patient with cardiac amyloidosis
History: 81 year-old male with history of atrial fibrillation

Number 09-05: Locating the leaks
History: 61 year old female with endocardial cushion referred for CMR to measure shunt flow.

Number 09-04: Diagnosing RV dilatation by CMR (2)
History: A 52 year old male with a dilated right ventricle and elevated pulmonary artery pressures on echocardiography.

Number 09-03: Coincident Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Left Ventricular Non-Compaction
History: Woman, 44 y/o, diagnosed by echocardiography of Non-Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

Number 09-02: Giant LV Pseudoaneurysm by CMR
History: A 79 year old male with late-presentation lateral STEMI 3days earlier..

Number 09-01: Is it or isn't it coronary artery disease?
History: A 46-year-old man presents with breathlessness, heart failure and chest pain. Troponin borderline