T D. Bradley

Antenatal MR imaging of pulmonary lymphangiectasia secondary to hypoplastic left heart syndrome

We report a case of pulmonary lymphangiectasia detected antenatally with MRI in a fetus with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and a restrictive atrial septum.

The impact of asymmetry on aortic root measurements in patients with bicuspid aortic valves

Methods Steady-state free precession cine acquisitions across the aortic root in short axis in patients with a diagnosis of BAV from January 2006 to December 2008 were evaluated at our institution using a 1.5 T magnet. For each aortic root, end-systolic measurements were obtained in duplicate by a single observer from cusp-to-commissure (3 measurements: right, left and non-coronary cusps to opposite commissure respectively) and cusp-to-cusp (3 measurements: right-left, right-non and left-non coronary cusps) using CMR. Using TTE, measures of the aortic root were recorded from the parasternal long axis view. Aortic root asymmetry was defined by comparing the standard deviation (SD) of the average of the 3 measurements of an individual (SDi) to the SD of the entire population (SDp). Two groups were generated: symmetric (SDi SDp) aortic roots.