Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Medicine:

What Is Cardiac MRI?

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safe, noninvasive test that creates detailed
images of your organs and tissues. “Noninvasive” means that no surgery is done and no
instruments are inserted into your body.

MRI uses radio waves and magnets to create images of your organs and tissues. Unlike
computed tomography (to-MOG-ra-fee) scans (also called CT scans) or conventional x
rays, MRI imaging doesn’t use ionizing radiation or carry any risk of causing cancer.

Cardiac MRI uses a computer to create images of your heart as it’s beating, producing
both still and moving pictures of your heart and major blood vessels. Doctors use cardiac
MRI to get images of the beating heart and to look at the structure and function of the
heart. These images can help them decide how best to treat patients with heart problems.

Cardiac MRI is a common test for diagnosing and evaluating a number of diseases and
conditions, including:

Coronary artery disease

Damage caused by a heart attack
Heart failure
Heart valve problems
Congenital heart defects
Pericardial disease (a disease that affects the tissues around the heart)
Cardiac tumors
Cardiac MRI images can help explain results from other tests, such as x ray and CT
scans. Cardiac MRI is sometimes used to avoid the need for other tests that use radiation
(such as x rays), invasive procedures, and dyes containing iodine (these dyes may be
harmful to people who have kidney problems).

Sometimes during cardiac MRI, a special dye is injected into a vein to help highlight the
heart or blood vessels on the images. Unlike the case with x rays, the special dyes used
for MRI don’t contain iodine, so they don’t present a risk to people who are allergic to
iodine or have kidney problems.
The department provides a wide range of services including 24 hour cardiology
emergency services for both out patients and in patients. It offers intensive coronary care,
and invasive and non invasive cardiology services. The various Invasive Cardiology
services on offer are

• Electrophysiology services including RF Ablation

• Pacemaker Implantation including Biventricular Pacing
• Pediatric Cardiology Services
• Preventive & Rehabilitative Services

The Non Invasive services are

• Transthoracic Color Echo Doppler

• Transesophageal Echo Cardiograph of both adults and pediatrics
• Stress Echocardiography
• Fetal Echocardiography
• Treadmill testing
• Cardiac Imaging with MR
• Holter Monitoring

Further we also follow numerous invasive cardiology procedures like

• Coronary Angiography/ Cardiac Catheterization

• Coronary Angioplasty with Stent
• Coronary Angioplasty with Rot ablator
• Non-Coronary Angioplasties with Stent
• Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty (PBMV)
• Pulmonary Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty (PBMV)
• Percutaneous Transluminal Metal Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMMC)
• Aortic Valvuloplasty (Pediatric & Adult)
• Intravascular Ultrasound.

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CARE Hospitals Banjara

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