Functional evaluation of extracardiac ventriculopulmonary conduits and of the right ventricle with magnetic resonance imaging and velocity mapping

Extracardiac ventriculopulmonary conduits tend to deteriorate over time, developing both obstruction and regurgitation. In this prospective study, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was compared with Doppler echocardiography to determine whether MRI improves the noninvasive evaluation of conduit patients. Twenty-five patients (median age 10 years, range 2.5 to 32) were investigated 27 times with Doppler echocardiography and an MRI protocol with...