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Preoperative assessment and follow-up of congenital abnormalities of the pulmonary arteries using CT and MRI

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Congenital heart disease (CHD), including complex anomalies of the pulmonary arteries, are now earlier diagnosed and treated. Due to improvements in interventional and surgical therapy, the number of patients with the need for follow-up examinations is increasing. Pre- and postinterventional imaging should be done as gently as possible, avoiding invasive techniques if possible. With the technical improvement of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), both techniques are increasingly used for noninvasive assessment of the pulmonary vasculature in children with CHD. Knowledge of the most common diseases affecting the pulmonary vasculature and the kind of surgical and interventional procedures is essential for optimal imaging planning. This is especially important because interventions can be positively influenced by high-quality imaging. Therefore, the most common diseases and procedures are described and imaging modality of choice and important image findings are discussed.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Radiology, University Children’s Hospital, Im, Neuenheimer Feld 153, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian Ley & Jens-Peter Schenk

  2. Department of Radiology (E010), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian Ley, Julia Zaporozhan & Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

  3. Department of Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Im, Neuenheimer Feld 153, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Raoul Arnold, Joachim Eichhorn & Herbert Ulmer

  4. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse, 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany

    Karl-Friedrich Kreitner

  5. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Mathildenstrasse 1, 79106, Freiburg, Germany

    Raoul Arnold

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Ley, S., Zaporozhan, J., Arnold, R. et al. Preoperative assessment and follow-up of congenital abnormalities of the pulmonary arteries using CT and MRI. Eur Radiol 17, 151–162 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-006-0300-8

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