Lymphatic pathway evaluation in congenital heart disease using 3D whole-heart balanced steady state free precession and T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Vasu D GootySurendranath R Veeram ReddyJoshua S GreerZachary BlairRiad Abou ZahrYousef ArarDaniel A CastellanosSheena PimplawarGerald F GreilJeanne DillenbeckTarique HussainPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2021)
Thoracic duct pathway can be visualized by 3D-bSSFP combined with T2w lymphangiography. Cardiac triggering and respiratory navigation likely help retain lymphatic signal in the retrocardiac area by 3D-bSSFP. Visualizing lymphatic system leaks is challenging on 3D-bSSFP images alone, but 3D-bSSFP offers good visualization of duct anatomy and landmark structures to help plan interventions. Together, these sequences can define abnormal lymphatic pathway following single ventricle palliative surgery, thus guiding lymphatic interventional procedures.
Keyphrases
- lymph node
- congenital heart disease
- magnetic resonance
- minimally invasive
- heart failure
- physical activity
- palliative care
- spinal cord
- pulmonary hypertension
- spinal cord injury
- contrast enhanced
- coronary artery bypass
- computed tomography
- mitral valve
- machine learning
- convolutional neural network
- acute coronary syndrome
- mass spectrometry
- coronary artery
- network analysis