Pericarditis
Fig. 9.1 Four-chamber (a) and short-axis (b) images from a FIESTA cine cardiac MRI in a 12-year-old girl show thickening of the pericardium (A) with an adjacent pneumonia (B). Note…
Myocarditis
Fig. 7.1 Chest roentgenogram showing evidence of cardiomegaly and pulmonary vascular congestion, consistent with myocarditis 7.2.3 ECG Findings ECGs are virtually always abnormal in children with myocarditis, but a normal…
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
Fig. 11.1 Posteroanterior radiograph in a young adult patient with acute rheumatic heart disease shows dilatation of the left atrial appendage (black arrow), creating a broad bump along the lateral…
Cardiac Myxoma
Fig. 19.1 Contrast-enhanced chest CTA axial images show a low-density lobulated mass (black arrows) in the right atrium, extending through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle (blue arrow) in…
Cardiac CT and MR Imaging Techniques
Fig. 2.1 Retrospective ECG-gated CT angiography (CTA) . The X-ray beam (blue) is on through 13 cardiac cycles 2.1.3 Prospective Scanning To decrease the radiation dose, the vast majority of…
Endocarditis
Fig. 8.1 Frontal radiograph of the chest (a) and coronal CT (b) in an 18-year-old patient with endocarditis, showing bilateral interstitial pulmonary edema (1) with a layering effusion on the…
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Fig. 17.1 T2-weighted image with fat saturation from an MRI of the chest in an infant shows a heterogeneous, high-signal-intensity mass filling the left ventricle in a patient with a…
Invasive Mediastinal Mucormycosis
Fig. 12.1 Single frontal radiograph of the chest (left) shows right perihilar edema and a right pleural effusion (red arrow) in a patient with persistent fevers. A contrast-enhanced CT scan…
Rhabdomyoma
Fig. 16.1 Chest x-ray (left) shows cardiomegaly in an infant with tuberous sclerosis and multiple rhabdomyomas. Echocardiogram (middle) shows large, echogenic masses filling the right and left ventricles in the…
