In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the timing of surgery and determine risk. This statement discusses the way these imaging techniques are currently integrated to improve care beyond what is possible with echocardiography alone.
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Chambers, J. B., Myerson, S. G., Rajani, R., Morgan-Hughes, G. J., & Dweck, M. R. (2016). Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease. Open Heart, 3(1), e000330. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2015-000330
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