02 Nov 19. Featured Paper
Aortic valve stenosis—multimodality assessment with PET/CT & PET/MRI
Link to paper on The British Journal of Radiology
Authors
Evangelos Tzolos, Jack PM Andrews, & Marc R. Dweck.
Abstract
Aortic valve disease is the most common form of heart valve disease in developed countries & a growing healthcare burden with an ageing population.
Transthoracic & transoesophageal echocardiography remains central to the diagnosis & surveillance of patients with aortic stenosis, providing gold standard assessments of valve haemodynamics & myocardial performance.
However, other multimodality imaging techniques are being explored for the assessment of aortic stenosis, including combined PET/CT & PET/MR.
Both approaches provide unique information with respect to disease activity in the valve alongside more conventional anatomic assessments of the valve & myocardium in this condition.
This review investigates the emerging use of PET/CT & PET/MR to assess patients with aortic stenosis, examining how the complementary data provided by each modality may be used for research applications & potentially in future clinical practice.