Heart diseases are one of the leading cause of death in human beings nowadays. According to the CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention), heart disease in today’s world takes the lives of almost 610,000 people every year worldwide. Doctors use a lot of different tests to predict the severity or risk of mortality. These tests include stress echocardiograms and catheterizations and different stress nuclear exams too. However, researchers think that using a test during magnetic resonance imaging can help the doctors to find out the fatal heart diseases accurately. The researchers have published their results from different medical journals. These reports said that magnetic resonance imaging can find out heart disease even in the patients who are not at that much risk as of now.
About heart diseases:
The coronary artery is one of the most common of a fatal heart disease nowadays. It mainly occurs when different types of fatty acids and cholesterol deposits build up to narrow and end up blocking the artery leads to the heart. The plaque, more widely known as the accumulation of deposit prevents the oxygen-enriched blood from reaching the heart and the muscles and thus, increases the risk of a heart attack. Plus, a fatal part of this kind of heart disease is you don’t find any signals before it appears. Coronary heart disease’s first sign in a lot of cases is the first major or minor heart attack.
Study shows cardiac MRI is the most accurate process to detect a heart disease:
The use of magnetic resonance imaging in heart diseases has shown potential results to detect a human body with heart disease. The study conducted by Duke Health 9151 patients for ten years, where the participants have gone through Heart MRI at one of the seven hospitals that were included in the study. The participants were without any medical histories of heart diseases and had a very low risk of heart diseases. However, these subjects of the studies had who have undergone an abnormal CMR scan were more likely to die compared to the patients who have experienced a normal cardiac magnetic resonance imaging scan. These results have shown a strong association between abnormal cardiac magnetic resonance and mortality among the patients. This relation between abnormal CMR and mortality was still there even after the researchers adjusted the sex, age and the patient’s cardiac risk factors. That means only one thing, and that is the abnormal CMR is a very accurate prediction of a person’s risk of dying from heart diseases.
Different study results have even proved that CMR (cardiac magnetic resonance) has the potential to become a non-toxic and non-invasive alternate of stress echocardiograms, stress nuclear exams and other tests mentioned above. The study mentioned above has also found that adding stress CMR has improved the mortality prediction has resulted in a massive 11.4 per cent improvement in the risk reclassification of heart diseases.
However, widespread adaptation of this stress CMR has been limited by several factors such as small numbers of good quality labs and lack of patient outcome data. However, prior studies on this topic have made it safe to say that Stress CMR is one of the most accurate methods to find heart diseases. Well, in Morristown, New Jersey, the Radiology Center At Harding is thankfully one of those few numbers of good quality labs that can help you with Cardiac MRI.
