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(Radiology. 2000;217:4-10.)
© RSNA, 2000

Reflections

Cardiac Imaging1

Charles B. Higgins, MD

1 From the Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, 505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0628, Suite L308, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628. Received October 1, 1999; revision requested December 6; revision received March 29, 2000; accepted April 4. Address correspondence to the author (e-mail: charles.higgins@radiology.ucsf.edu).

ABSTRACT

The emergence of noninvasive imaging techniques for the definitive diagnosis and monitoring of cardiovascular disease has greatly altered cardiac imaging in the past 25 years. The practice of cardiac imaging in 1975 was centered on conventional radiography and angiography, but, in the past 2 decades, noninvasive techniques have substantially replaced catheterization and angiography. The reliance on echocardiography for the evaluation of many cardiac diseases had a profoundly negative influence on the role of the radiologist in cardiac imaging, since the exercise of this modality has been a nearly exclusive province of the cardiologist. However, in the past decade, magnetic resonance imaging has been gradually assuming more importance in cardiovascular diagnosis; with this increase in importance, the role of the radiologist has been reactivated. In 1975, fellowship training in cardiac imaging was frequently combined with training in angiography. Now, training may be more effective by combining cardiac and pulmonary imaging in a thoracic imaging fellowship, but cross-training with an associated subspeciality will be influenced by priorities and personnel in various departments.

Index terms: Angiocardiography, 50.1241, 50.1242 • Angiography, 50.1243, 50.1244 • Aorta, diseases, 562.1511, 94.14, 94.1971, 94.20, 94.30, 94.40, 94.72, 94.73, 94.74, 94.761, 94.78 • Heart, cardiomyopathy, 50.193 • Heart, CT, 50.1211 • Heart, diseases, 50.145, 50.151, 50.172, 50.175, 50.18, 50.19, 50.20, 50.70, 50.80 • Heart, ischemia, 50.1939 • Heart, MR, 50.12141 • Heart, US, 50.1298 • Heart, valves, 50.17 • Reflections




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