Peds/CHD Pre-Conference Course 03 - Practical Imaging Suggestions for Pediatric & CHD CMR-How to help the interventionalist with CMRI?

How to help the interventionalist with CMRI?

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Video Summary

The talk explains how cardiac MRI (CMR) helps interventionalists plan congenital heart disease procedures. Compared with catheterization and echocardiography, CMR offers detailed 3D anatomy, tissue characterization, and often more accurate hemodynamic data without radiation or invasive risks. Case examples show CMR guiding assessment of shunts, pulmonary blood flow, VSD closure, coarctation stenting, pulmonary valve replacement, and biopsy of an intracardiac mass. It also highlights MRI-fluoroscopy fusion and emerging real-time MRI-guided catheterization. Overall, CMR improves procedural planning, device selection, and patient counseling, with potential to replace more invasive assessments in the future.

Keywords

cardiac MRI

congenital heart disease

interventional planning

MRI-fluoroscopy fusion

real-time MRI-guided catheterization