Aortic valve stenosis—multimodality assessment with PET/CT & PET/MRI Link to paper on The British Journal of Radiology Authors Evangelos Tzolos, Jack PM Andrews, & Marc R. Dweck. Abstract Aortic valve disease is the most common form of heart valve disease in developed countries & a growing healthcare burden with an ageing population. Transthoracic & transoesophageal echocardiography remains central to the diagnosis & surveillance of patients with aortic stenosis, providing gold standard assessments of valve haemodynamics & myocardial performance. However, other multimodality imaging techniques are being explored for the assessment of aortic stenosis, including combined PET/CT & PET/MR. Both approaches provide unique information with respect to disease activity in the valve alongside more conventional anatomic assessments of the valve & myocardium in this condition. This review investigates the emerging use of PET/CT & PET/MR to assess patients with aortic stenosis, examining how the complementary data provided by each modality may be used for research applications & potentially in future clinical practice. Related links Link to paper on The British Journal of Radiology Dr Marc Dweck Dr Jack Andrews Centre for Cardiovascular Science Heart / cardiovascular What is a PET-CT scan? What is a PET-MR scan? Publication date 21 Aug, 2020
