Though rare, anomalous coronary artery disease is a well-known cause of myocardial ischemia and sudden death among children and young adults. The projectional nature of conventional x-ray angiography often leads to difficulty in the definition of anomalous vessels. Studies have now documented the high accuracy of coronary magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for the noninvasive detection and de...

At present, coronary angiography is the well known standard for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Conventional coronary angiography is an invasive procedure with a small, yet inherent risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, potential arrhythmias, and death. Other noninvasive diagnostic tools, such as electrocardiography, echocardiography, and nuclear imaging are now widely available but ...

BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular diseases are among the most frequent diseases of the central nervous system. There are several diagnostic methods for cerebral blood vessels evaluation. The optimal test is characterized with low risk, availability and diagnostic certainty. Lately, the rapid development of transcranial color duplex sonography (TCCS) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) have shown ...

Introduction : Cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis, can induce the development of stenosis. These can become critical in pathologies such as coronary heart diseases and necessitate a surgical intervention. A whole body angiography is therefore required to localize stenosis at risk and to target interventions. First-pass magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) on humans provides a non-...

The small bowel, affected by a host of pathologic conditions can be difficult and challenging to image because of its length and tortuous course. However the small bowel imaging is evolving. There was a time when small-bowel follow-through (SBFT) was the primary and only method of diagnosing diseases of the small bowel. In recent years, there has been availability of a variety of techniques suc...

OBJECTIVES This review aims to establish the impact on conventional angiography and endovascular intervention of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (CE-MRA) and contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography (CE-CTA) on a background of evolving technology, changing clinical requirements and resulting clinical repercussions. METHODS The angiographic and interventional caseload...

Case Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is an increasingly recognized and important cause of thunderclap headache. Delays in diagnosis may cause deterioration of symptoms and concomitant unnecessary investigations. However, the diagnosis of RCVS in the acute stage remains difficult.A 41-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department for severe, recurrent occipital heada...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We compared 3-dimensional time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (3D TOF MRA) using a 3-tesla (T) MR unit with 64-channel multi-detector row computed tomographic angiography (64-MDCTA) for detection and characterization of angiographically proven unruptured intracranial aneurysms. METHODS Thirty-eight patients with 47 aneurysms and 8 patients without aneurysms un...

We describe a 62-year-old woman suffering from visual hallucination due to focal status epilepticus investigated by means of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), Electroencephalography (EEG), and 99m Technetium ethylcysteinate dimer Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (Tc-99m ECD SPECT). EEG showed spikes in the right parietooccipital area. MRI demonstr...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to compare the detectability of neck vessels with contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in the setting of a whole-body MRA and multislice computed tomography angiography (CTA) for preoperative vascular mapping of head and neck. METHODS In 20 patients MRA was performed prior to microvascular reconstruction of the mandible with osteomyocuta...