• Question: Do you research into certain illnesses through MRI?

    Asked by Ellie- Rose to Andy on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by not the bacon!!, Ciara.
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      Andrew Scott answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      The team I work in looks at various diseases of the heart. This includes people who have had: heart attacks; damage to their heart from high blood pressure; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (where your heart muscle is very thick); dilated cardiomyopathy (where your heart muscle is very thin); congenital heart disease (where your heart isn’t formed properly from when you were born); problems with the valves in your heart that make sure the blood only goes one way; and pretty much anything else that can go wrong with your heart or blood vessels.

      Other people use MRI to research other diseases and I think it can be used to study most diseases. For example, it’s used a lot to detect and see how severe cancer is and it can detect a stroke in the brain earlier than any other method. In the brain it’s used for stacks of stuff, but that’s not something I know much about. The heart is more interesting!

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