Diagnostic evaluation of chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases in children and adolescents: MRI with true-FISP as new gold standard?
The described small bowel MRI examination is appropriate for children and adolescents. With the use of True-FISP sequences, it is a convincing method with an outstanding sensitivity in the diagnosis of IBD. Not least because of the lack of radiation exposure, small bowel MRI ought to replace conventional enteroclysis as a gold standard for IBD diagnosis in children and adolescents.
In patients submitted to mitral surgery, conversion to sinus rhythm by left atrial ablation can significantly improve the health-related quality of life.