Peds/CHD Pre-Conference Course 03 - Practical Imaging Suggestions for Pediatric & CHD CMR-Extracardiac incidental findings

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Video Summary

The speaker, a pediatric/cardiovascular radiologist, reviews how to spot and manage extracardiac incidental findings on cardiac imaging. She emphasizes three principles: look for what you might miss, connect disease knowledge to imaging findings, and communicate carefully. She organizes findings into associated disease-related, treatment-related, and “life-related” incidental findings, with examples from Marfan syndrome, Fontan patients, hemoglobinopathies, cancer therapy, cysts, hemangiomas, neck lesions, and spine abnormalities. Her key advice: check prior imaging, use other modalities and specialists, avoid over- and under-calling, and build a consistent search pattern and dictation checklist.

Keywords

extracardiac incidental findings

cardiac imaging

Marfan syndrome

Fontan patients

imaging checklist