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Cardiac MRI

Cardiac MRI creates both still and moving pictures of your heart and major blood vessels. It is used to get pictures of the beating heart and to look at its structure and function to determine heart health issues.

Cardiac MRI is a common test. It’s used to diagnose and assess many diseases and conditions, including:

  • Coronary heart disease
  • Damage caused by a heart attack
  • Heart failure
  • Heart valve problems
  • Congenital (kon-JEN-ih-tal) heart defects (heart defects present at birth)
  • Pericarditis (a condition in which the membrane, or sac, around your heart is inflamed)
  • Cardiac tumors
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