[Update on cardiac imaging techniques. Echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance and multidetector computed tomography]. / Actualización en técnicas de imagen cardiaca. Ecocardiografía, resonancia magnética y tomografía computarizada.

This review of progress in cardiac imaging techniques summarizes the most significant development reported in the last year on different echocardiographic techniques and their application in a range of settings, from the treatment of heart failure to their use in intraoperative monitoring and guiding interventional procedures. Large sections are devoted to recent developments in three-dimensional imaging and, because of its clinical importance, to magnetic resonance imaging. Finally, there is a comprehensive update on the use of multidetector computed tomography in cardiology.

Cor triatriatum sinistrum in an elderly man.

Divided left atrium or Cor Triatriatum, is a congenital cardiac malformation having low incidence during paediatric age, ranging between 0.1 - 0.4%. Its appearance in adulthood is even more exceptional and often inadvertently discovered, although symptomatic manifestations could entail an interesting differential diagnosis. We present an elderly patient with asymptomatic Cor Triatriatum.