MRI of Ischemic Heart Disease

Luigi Natale, MD, is currently Head of the MRI Department at Centro Oncologico, Florence, having previously been Head of the MRI Unit at the Catholic University of Rome since 2003. Dr. Natale gained his medical degree in 1985 and, after achieving board certification in radiology, became first a Fellow and then Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart School of Medicine, Rome. His particular fields of interest included CT and MRI, and he developed the latter interest through various overseas courses and visits. Dr. Natale is a member of the Educational Committee of the European Society of Cardiac Imaging. He is also a Past President of the Cardiac Radiology Working Group of the Italian Society of Cardiac Radiology and an active current member of the thoracic imaging and cardiac imaging groups of the Italian Society of Medical Radiology and the Italian Society of Cardiology. He has published some 60 papers in indexed journals and has also authored several book chapters. He has been a speaker at many national and international congresses, workshops, and courses, mainly in cardiac imaging, and cardiac MRI is among his foremost research interests.

Cardiac MRI: basic requirements and sequences.-Cardiac anatomy, scan planes.- Pathophysiology of myocardial ischemia.- Stress cine-MRI.- Stress perfusion MRI.- Acute and chronic infarct MR imaging.- Viability MR imaging.- Left ventricle remodeling and heart failure.- MR coronary angiography.