Response to Letter Regarding Article, 'Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance as a Gatekeeper to Invasive Coronary Angiography in Patients Presenting With Heart Failure of Unknown Etiology'
| Autor: | Sanjay K Prasad, Jennifer Keegan, Martin R. Cowie, Paul R. Kalra, Dudley J. Pennell, Jonathan Lyne, Ankur Gulati, Julian Strange, William M. Bradlow, Ravi Assomull, Guy Lloyd, Carl Shakespeare |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Magnetic resonance imaging Revascularization medicine.disease Invasive coronary angiography Coronary artery disease Coronary arteries medicine.anatomical_structure Physiology (medical) Internal medicine Heart failure medicine Cardiology Etiology In patient cardiovascular diseases Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 125 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 0009-7322 |
| DOI: | 10.1161/circulationaha.112.092262 |
| Popis: | We thank Dr Hamilton-Craig and colleagues for their insightful remarks regarding our work. We concur with their assertion that “the absence of late gadolinium enhancement does not necessarily obviate the need to image coronary arteries,” because a small proportion (0%–7.1%) of patients will have global hibernation secondary to proximal severe coronary artery disease (CAD) without infarction.1,2 In their own study, revascularization in these patients resulted in improved outcome stemming from augmented ventricular function.2 For precisely this reason, our protocol used magnetic … |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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