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MRI for viewing the heart

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MRI is a comprehensive method for examining the heart, wrote Constantin B. Marcu of the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues in a review of cardiovascular MRI. In fact, the imaging technique can detect an enlarged heart and assess its function as well as visualize an aortic aneurysm and the thickening of the tissue surrounding the heart. An MRI technique called delayed contrast enhancement can differentiate between dead and healthy heart tissue and show how much tissue damage has occurred after a heart attack. In addition, it can identify heart muscle...Read full article

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