ABSTRACT
The new diagnostic criteria for ankylosing spondylitis include MRI. MRI frequently allows early diagnosis of inflammatory lesions in patients with normal plain films. In addition, MRI is useful for the detection and quantification of inflammatory and structural lesions, and to assess disease activity.
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Image Enhancement , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Spondylitis, Ankylosing/diagnosis , Adolescent , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Lumbar Vertebrae/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Sacroiliac Joint/pathology , Sacrum/pathology , Spondylitis, Ankylosing/etiology , Thoracic Vertebrae/pathology , Young AdultABSTRACT
Cardiac MRI in patients with acute coronary syndrome with elevated troponin levels but normal coronarography can now routinely be performed on most MR units. MRI plays an important role in this clinical setting by its ability to detect myocardial infarction in patients with normal coronarography or suggest a different, potentially severe, alternate diagnosis such as myocarditis or takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
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Acute Coronary Syndrome/diagnosis , Image Enhancement , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Acute Coronary Syndrome/diagnostic imaging , Adult , Coronary Angiography , Female , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The new diagnostic criteria for spondyloarthropathy include MRI. MRI frequently allows early diagnosis of inflammatory lesions of the spine and sacroiliac joints in patients with normal plain films. Moreover, MRI is useful for the detection and quantification of inflammatory and structural lesions, and to assess disease activity.
