SCMR Position Paper (2020) on Clinical Indications for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Overview

Journal J Cardiovasc Magn Reson

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Radiology

Date 2020 Nov 9

PMID 33161900

Citations 112

Authors

Tim Leiner

Jan Bogaert

Matthias G Friedrich

Raad Mohiaddin

Vivek Muthurangu

Saul Myerson

Andrew J Powell

Subha V Raman

Dudley J Pennell

Affiliations

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Abstract

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) last published its comprehensive expert panel report of clinical indications for CMR in 2004. This new Consensus Panel report brings those indications up to date for 2020 and includes the very substantial increase in scanning techniques, clinical applicability and adoption of CMR worldwide. We have used a nearly identical grading system for indications as in 2004 to ensure comparability with the previous report but have added the presence of randomized controlled trials as evidence for level 1 indications. In addition to the text, tables of the consensus indication levels are included for rapid assimilation and illustrative figures of some key techniques are provided.

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