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Cardiac MRI Case 11

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Case number 15 for this for the

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time being the history is being withheld and let's

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watch the video playing.

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So this video is a 4 chamber View.

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cine bright blood image it shows two atria,

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the two ventricles in the two atria and

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unlike for everyone to observe the wall motion of the ventricles here.

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Particularly in the septal region now. I'm going to close this movie

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and go to another movie. Actually. Let's

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look at the black blood image here. These are two

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black blood images and the short access plane.

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There is a normality here and we're going

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to go to further images. Now. These

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two images are cine images obtained in free breathing.

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The one on the right is is

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performed in deeper inspiration compared to

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the one on the left.

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Black blood images still captures from

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a from a real-time acquisition

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and I'm going to play a short axis video in

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a minute.

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Okay, so here is what's known as real-time

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Imaging share my screen again.

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And in real time Imaging what we do is we ask

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the patient take a deep breath.

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And we image constantly. Well,

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the patient is taking a deep breath in and out and we're looking

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for abnormalities in one specific and atomic region

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of the heart.

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So I'm going to let this video play.

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While we take some poll questions here.

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Can you come to the first question, please? What is the correct diagnosis?

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It's either of these five.

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So the participants were

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divided between

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three diagram between four diagnosis the correct diagnosis Constructor periconditis

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notice that in this video as the patient

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takes a deep breath. The septum moves paradoxically towards the

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left ventricle. This is what's known as a several bounce or paradoxical

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simple motion and it's a feet and it indicates the

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physiology of constrictor pericarditis given the

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fact that the patient has I'm going to go go back

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to the city go to the

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go to the still images here in a minute notice that

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this patient has circumferential periodontal thickening the normal period should

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be about two to three millimeters and thickness in this

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patient. It measures more than that the normal pericardium just

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as a rule of thumb should be about pencil thing should be able to draw it around

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with your pencil or one or two millimeters thick. It's

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much thicker in this case.

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This is a patient who has constricted pericardo

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circumferential thickening of the pericardium abnormal septal

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motion.

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You're going to show the short axis image again.

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Here. This is a series of short axis

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images obtained share this any image clip here. So

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as you can see on the on the shot axis stack, there's eight

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shot axis images notice the

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paradoxical simple motion and diced in diastoli. The

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septum becomes flattened in most paradoxically towards

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the left ventricle. That's because the right ventricular filling presses are

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elevated. There's restriction by the by the thicken pericardium and

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Industry as the right ventricle is filling in

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pretty clean inspiration the subtermost paradoxically towards

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opposite side this apple curve, which you should always be convex towards the

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right to ventricle. And in this case, it's flattening and moving paradoxical towards

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the last frontal industry a feature constrictorian conditis

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in combination with the anatomical features

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of thicken pericardium is finding

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indicates constrictorianitis.

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Okay, can we have the next question pertaining a

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pertaining to this case, please? The basic difference between a

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spinacho and grain Echo image a very basic

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question, which has been posed here.

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Okay, the correct answer for me

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if participants takes take the poll.

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It's a black blood images are Spinnaker images bright blood image is

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a great images in general contact mine was a combination

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of black and bright blood images correct answer is Pinnacle images

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require refocusing pulse spinach images

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require 180 degree refocusing pulse fact the

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alpha the gradient echo images not require that instead we

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use Alpha palsy refoc refocus the protons. The

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answer is the last term Last Choice

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spinachary images require a 180 degree focusing part.

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It's been images by virtue of physics and

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by which of the 180 by the washout effect the spin

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washout effect. The blood is black. So this the black

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blood images that we saw earlier are Spinnaker images.

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The bright blood image is a great images.

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Senegrating Echo Imaging known as steady state repossession

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Imaging is the standard cardiac Mr. Sequence used for

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cine Imaging so you can see the pericardium is thicken here paradoxical simple

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motion towards a left ventricle in diastole

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indicating constrictive pericarditis.

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Faculty

Anil Attili, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Michigan Medicine

Tags

Pericardium

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Myocardium

MRI

Infectious

Idiopathic

Cardiac Chambers

Cardiac

Acquired/Developmental