SCMR Position Paper (2020) on clinical indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance

• Published in: Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 76 - 37
• Main Authors: Leiner, Tim, Bogaert, Jan, Friedrich, Matthias G, Mohiaddin, Raad, Muthurangu, Vivek, Myerson, Saul, Powell, Andrew J, Raman, Subha V, Pennell, Dudley J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 09.11.2020; BioMed Central; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adults; Cardiology; Cardiology - standards; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Catheters; Classification; Clinical Decision-Making; Clinical medicine; Clinical trials; Congenital diseases; Consensus; Delphi Technique; Diagnosis; Evaluation; Heart; Humans; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - standards; Medical societies; Patients; Physiology; Practice guidelines (Medicine); Predictive Value of Tests; Pulmonary arteries; Resonance; Review; Netherlands
• ISSN: 1097-6647; 1532-429X; 1532-429X
• DOI: 10.1186/s12968-020-00682-4

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) last published its comprehensive expert panel report of clinical indications for CMR in 2004. This new Consensus Panel report brings those indications up to date for 2020 and includes the very substantial increase in scanning techniques, clinical applicability and adoption of CMR worldwide. We have used a nearly identical grading system for indications as in 2004 to ensure comparability with the previous report but have added the presence of randomized controlled trials as evidence for level 1 indications. In addition to the text, tables of the consensus indication levels are included for rapid assimilation and illustrative figures of some key techniques are provided.