Radiology, Vol 181, 645-649, Copyright © 1991 by Radiological Society of North America

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Abnormalities of the pulmonary veins: evaluation with MR imaging and comparison with cardiac angiography and echocardiography

T Masui, KC Seelos, BA Kersting-Sommerhoff and CB Higgins
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143.

Seventy-seven patients underwent T1-weighted spin-echo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Group 1 (n = 56) consisted of patients with various types of congenital heart disease but normal pulmonary veins. Group 2 (n = 22) consisted of patients with the following conditions: partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (n = 11), total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (n = 5), cor triatriatum (n = 4), or pulmonary vein stenosis (n = 2). In group 1, the sites of connections of all four pulmonary veins were identified with MR imaging in 88% of cases; the connections of at least three pulmonary veins were seen in all patients. In group 2, the prospective detection rate of pulmonary venous abnormalities with MR imaging was 95%. The prospective detection rates of pulmonary venous abnormalities with cardiac angiography (n = 13) and echo-cardiography (n = 13) were 69% and 38%, respectively. This study indicates that MR imaging can accurately demonstrate the normal pulmonary veins and abnormalities of the pulmonary veins.

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