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Clinical application of free-breathing 3D whole heart late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance with high isotropic spatial resolution using Compressed SENSE

Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) represents the gold standard for assessment of myocardial viability. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical potentia...

Authors: Lenhard Pennig, Simon Lennartz, Anton Wagner, Marcel Sokolowski, Matej Gajzler, Svenja Ney, Kai Roman Laukamp, Thorsten Persigehl, Alexander Christian Bunck, David Maintz, Kilian Weiss, Claas Philip Naehle and Jonas Doerner

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance reference values of mitral and tricuspid annular dimensions: the UK Biobank cohort

Mitral valve (MV) and tricuspid valve (TV) apparatus geometry are essential to define mechanisms and etiologies of regurgitation and to inform surgical or transcatheter interventions. Given the increasing use ...

Authors: Fabrizio Ricci, Nay Aung, Sabina Gallina, Filip Zemrak, Kenneth Fung, Giandomenico Bisaccia, Jose Miguel Paiva, Mohammed Y. Khanji, Cesare Mantini, Stefano Palermi, Aaron M. Lee, Stefan K. Piechnik, Stefan Neubauer and Steffen E. Petersen

Accelerated high-resolution free-breathing 3D whole-heart T₂-prepared black-blood and bright-blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance

The free-breathing 3D whole-heart T₂-prepared Bright-blood and black-blOOd phase SensiTive inversion recovery (BOOST) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) sequence was recently proposed for simultaneous bright...

Authors: Teresa Correia, Giulia Ginami, Imran Rashid, Giovanna Nordio, Reza Hajhosseiny, Tevfik F. Ismail, Radhouene Neji, René M. Botnar and Claudia Prieto

Reference ranges (“normal values”) for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in adults and children: 2020 update

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) enables assessment and quantification of morphological and functional parameters of the heart, including chamber size and function, diameters of the aorta and pulmonary ...

Authors: Nadine Kawel-Boehm, Scott J. Hetzel, Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, Gabriella Captur, Christopher J. Francois, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Michael Salerno, Shawn D. Teague, Emanuela Valsangiacomo-Buechel, Rob J. van der Geest and David A. Bluemke

Myocardial fibrosis in asymptomatic and symptomatic chronic severe primary mitral regurgitation and relationship to tissue characterisation and left ventricular function on cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Myocardial fibrosis occurs in end-stage heart failure secondary to mitral regurgitation (MR), but it is not known whether this is present before onset of symptoms or myocardial dysfunction. This study aimed to...

Authors: Boyang Liu, Desley A. H. Neil, Monisha Premchand, Moninder Bhabra, Ramesh Patel, Thomas Barker, Nicolas Nikolaidis, J. Stephen Billing, Thomas A. Treibel, James C. Moon, Arantxa González, James Hodson, Nicola C. Edwards and Richard P. Steeds

T₁-Mapping and extracellular volume estimates in pediatric subjects with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and healthy controls at 3T

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—a fatal X-linked genetic disorder. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging is the current gold standard...

Authors: Nyasha G. Maforo, Patrick Magrath, Kévin Moulin, Jiaxin Shao, Grace Hyun Kim, Ashley Prosper, Pierangelo Renella, Holden H. Wu, Nancy Halnon and Daniel B. Ennis

Deep learning to diagnose cardiac amyloidosis from cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is part of the diagnostic work-up for cardiac amyloidosis (CA). Deep learning (DL) is an application of artificial intelligence that may allow to automatically analyze C...

Authors: Nicola Martini, Alberto Aimo, Andrea Barison, Daniele Della Latta, Giuseppe Vergaro, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Andrea Ripoli, Michele Emdin and Dante Chiappino

Clinical validation of three cardiovascular magnetic resonance techniques to measure strain and torsion in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

Several cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) techniques can measure myocardial strain and torsion with high accuracy. The purpose of this study was to compare displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (D...

Authors: Johan Kihlberg, Vikas Gupta, Henrik Haraldsson, Andreas Sigfridsson, Sebastian I. Sarvari, Tino Ebbers and Jan E. Engvall

Assessment of gadolinium deposition in the brain tissue of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease patients after contrast enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important tool for the assessment of extracardiac vasculature and myocardial viability. Gadolinium (Gd) brain deposition after contrast enhanced MRI has...

Authors: Neil Zaki, David Parra, Quinn Wells, Joshua D. Chew, Kristen George-Durrett, Sumit Pruthi and Jonathan Soslow

Layer-specific strain in patients with heart failure using cardiovascular magnetic resonance: not all layers are the same

Global longitudinal strain (GLS), most commonly measured at the endocardium, has been shown to be superior to left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) for the identification of systolic dysfunction and p...

Authors: Lingyu Xu, Joseph J. Pagano, Mark J. Haykowksy, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Gavin Y. Oudit, Yoko Mikami, Andrew Howarth, James A. White, Jason R. B. Dyck, Todd Anderson, D. Ian Paterson and Richard B. Thompson

Fully‑automated deep‑learning segmentation of pediatric cardiovascular magnetic resonance of patients with complex congenital heart diseases

For the growing patient population with congenital heart disease (CHD), improving clinical workflow, accuracy of diagnosis, and efficiency of analyses are considered unmet clinical needs. Cardiovascular magnet...

Authors: Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi, Arghavan Arafati, Andrew L. Cheng, Yilei Wu, Arash Kheradvar and Hamid Jafarkhani

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance-derived left ventricular mechanics—strain, cardiac power and end-systolic elastance under various inotropic states in swine

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) strain imaging is an established technique to quantify myocardial deformation. However, to what extent left ventricular (LV) systolic strain, and therefore LV mechanics,...

Authors: A. Faragli, R. Tanacli, C. Kolp, D. Abawi, T. Lapinskas, C. Stehning, B. Schnackenburg, F. P. Lo Muzio, L. Fassina, B. Pieske, E. Nagel, H. Post, S. Kelle and A. Alogna

Radial-based acquisition strategies for pre-procedural non-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary veins

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) or contrast-enhanced (CE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) is often obtained in patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing evaluation prior to pulmon...

Authors: Pascale Aouad, Ioannis Koktzoglou, Bastien Milani, Ali Serhal, Jose Nazari and Robert R. Edelman

Is a timely assessment of the hematocrit necessary for cardiovascular magnetic resonance–derived extracellular volume measurements?

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)–derived extracellular volume (ECV) requires a hematocrit (Hct) to correct contrast volume distributions in blood. However, the timely assessment of Hct can be challengin...

Authors: Mao-Yuan Su, Yu-Sen Huang, Emi Niisato, Kelvin Chow, Jyh-Ming Jimmy Juang, Cho-Kai Wu, Hsi-Yu Yu, Lian-Yu Lin, Shun-Chung Yang and Yeun-Chung Chang

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

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 u...

Authors: Tim Leiner, Jan Bogaert, Matthias G. Friedrich, Raad Mohiaddin, Vivek Muthurangu, Saul Myerson, Andrew J. Powell, Subha V. Raman and Dudley J. Pennell

Highlights of the 2020 23rd Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Sessions

Authors: Lars Grosse-Wortmann, Christopher J. Francois, Lilia M. Sierra-Galan, Michael Markl, Javier Sanz, James Carr, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci and Andrew J. Powell

Evaluation of dyspnea of unknown etiology in HIV patients with cardiopulmonary exercise testing and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients commonly experience dyspnea for which an immediate cause may not be always apparent. In this prospective cohort study of HIV patients with exercise limitation, we use c...

Authors: Andrew J. Patterson, Anuja Sarode, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Lauren Shaver, Rahul Thomas, Evelyn Watson, Mohamad Amer Alaiti, Yuchi Liu, Jessie Hamilton, Nicole Seiberlich, Imran Rashid, Robert Gilkeson, Robert Schilz, Brian Hoit, Trevor Jenkins, Melissa Zullo…

Incremental prognostic value of coronary flow reserve determined by phase-contrast cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance of the coronary sinus in patients with diabetes mellitus

Although non-invasive assessment of coronary flow reserve (CFR) by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) provides prognostic information for patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), the incremental prognostic v...

Authors: Shingo Kato, Kazuki Fukui, Sho Kodama, Mai Azuma, Tae Iwasawa, Kazuo Kimura, Kouichi Tamura and Daisuke Utsunomiya

On the optimal temporal resolution for phase contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: establishment of baseline values

The aim of this study is to quantify the frequency content of the blood velocity waveform in different body regions by means of phase contrast (PC) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and Doppler ultrasoun...

Authors: Francesco Santini, Michele Pansini, Maja Hrabak-Paar, Denise Yates, Thomas H. Langenickel, Jens Bremerich, Oliver Bieri and Tilman Schubert

Cardiovascular disease in women: insights from magnetic resonance imaging

The presentation and identification of cardiovascular disease in women pose unique diagnostic challenges compared to men, and underrecognized conditions in this patient population may lead to clinical mismanag...

Authors: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Ellen Ostenfeld, Lauren A. Baldassarre, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Luba Frank, Kimberly Kallianos, Subha V. Raman, Monvadi B. Srichai, Elisa McAlindon, Sophie Mavrogeni, Ntobeko A. B. Ntusi, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Anne Marie Valente and Karen G. Ordovas

Detection of subclinical myocardial dysfunction in cocaine addicts with feature tracking cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Cocaine is an addictive, sympathomimetic drug with potentially lethal effects. We have previously shown with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) the presence of cardiovascular involvement in a significant ...

Authors: Alicia M. Maceira, Sara Guardiola, Carmen Ripoll, Juan Cosin-Sales, Vicente Belloch and Jose Salazar

Ex vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging in congenital heart disease, an insight into the microstructures of tetralogy of Fallot, biventricular and univentricular systemic right ventricle

Common types of congenital heart disease exhibit a variety of structural and functional variations which may be accompanied by changes in the myocardial microstructure. We aimed to compare myocardial architect...

Authors: Cyril Tous, Thomas L. Gentles, Alistair A. Young and Beau P. Pontré

The clinical impact of phase offset errors and different correction methods in cardiovascular magnetic resonance phase contrast imaging: a multi-scanner study

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) phase contrast (PC) flow measurements suffer from phase offset errors. Background subtraction based on stationary phantom measurements can most reliably be used to overc...

Authors: Savine C. S. Minderhoud, Nikki van der Velde, Jolanda J. Wentzel, Rob J. van der Geest, Mohammed Attrach, Piotr A. Wielopolski, Ricardo P. J. Budde, Willem A. Helbing, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink and Alexander Hirsch

What is the mid-wall linear high intensity “lesion” on cardiovascular magnetic resonance late gadolinium enhancement?

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is a valuable technique for detecting myocardial disorders and fibrosis. However, we sometimes observe a linear, mid-wall high intensit...

Authors: Masashi Nakamura, Tomoyuki Kido, Kuniaki Hirai, Kohei Tabo, Yuki Tanabe, Naoto Kawaguchi, Akira Kurata, Teruhito Kido, Osamu Yamaguchi and Teruhito Mochizuki

Carotid geometry is an independent predictor of wall thickness – a 3D cardiovascular magnetic resonance study in patients with high cardiovascular risk

The posterior wall of the proximal internal carotid artery (ICA) is the predilection site for the development of stenosis. To optimally prevent stroke, identification of new risk factors for plaque progression...

Authors: Christoph Strecker, Axel Joachim Krafft, Lilli Kaufhold, Markus Hüllebrandt, Susanne Weber, Ute Ludwig, Martin Wolkewitz, Anja Hennemuth, Jürgen Hennig and Andreas Harloff

Exercise cardiovascular magnetic resonance: development, current utility and future applications

Stress cardiac imaging is the current first line investigation for coronary artery disease diagnosis and decision making and an adjunctive tool in a range of non-ischaemic cardiovascular diseases. Exercise car...

Authors: Thomas P. Craven, Connie W. Tsao, Andre La Gerche, Orlando P. Simonetti and John P. Greenwood

Exercise cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals reduced cardiac reserve in pediatric cancer survivors with impaired cardiopulmonary fitness

Pediatric cancer survivors are at increased risk of cardiac dysfunction and heart failure. Reduced peak oxygen consumption (peak VO₂) is associated with impaired cardiac reserve (defined as the increase in cardia...

Authors: Stephen Foulkes, Benedict T. Costello, Erin J. Howden, Kristel Janssens, Hayley Dillon, Claudia Toro, Piet Claus, Steve F. Fraser, Robin M. Daly, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers and Andre La Gerche

Influence of hydration status on cardiovascular magnetic resonance myocardial T1 and T2 relaxation time assessment: an intraindividual study in healthy subjects

Myocardial native T1 and T2 relaxation time mapping are sensitive to pathological increase of myocardial water content (e.g. myocardial edema). However, the influence of physiological hydration changes as a po...

Authors: Julian A. Luetkens, Marilia Voigt, Anton Faron, Alexander Isaak, Narine Mesropyan, Darius Dabir, Alois M. Sprinkart, Claus C. Pieper, Johannes Chang, Ulrike Attenberger, Daniel Kuetting and Daniel Thomas

Prevalence and pattern of cardiovascular magnetic resonance late gadolinium enhancement in highly trained endurance athletes

Intensive endurance exercise may induce a broad spectrum of right ventricular (RV) adaptation/remodelling patterns. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) has also been described in cardiovascular magnetic resonanc...

Authors: B. Domenech-Ximenos, M. Sanz-de la Garza, S. Prat-González, A. Sepúlveda-Martínez, F. Crispi, K. Duran-Fernandez, R. J. Perea, B. Bijnens and M. Sitges

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) recommended CMR protocols for scanning patients with active or convalescent phase COVID-19 infection

The aim of this document is to provide specific recommendations on the use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) protocols in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. In patients without COVID-19, standard CMR p...

Authors: Sebastian Kelle, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Robert M. Judd, Raymond Y. Kwong, Orlando Simonetti, Sven Plein, Francesca Raimondi, Jonathan W. Weinsaft, Timothy C. Wong and James Carr

Automated quantification of myocardial tissue characteristics from native T₁ mapping using neural networks with uncertainty-based quality-control

Tissue characterisation with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) parametric mapping has the potential to detect and quantify both focal and diffuse alterations in myocardial structure not assessable by lat...

Authors: Esther Puyol-Antón, Bram Ruijsink, Christian F. Baumgartner, Pier-Giorgio Masci, Matthew Sinclair, Ender Konukoglu, Reza Razavi and Andrew P. King

4D flow CMR analysis comparing patients with anatomically shaped aortic sinus prostheses, tube prostheses and healthy subjects introducing the wall shear stress gradient: a case control study

Anatomically pre-shaped sinus prostheses (SP) were developed to mimic the aortic sinus with the goal to preserve near physiological hemodynamic conditions after valve-sparing aortic root replacement. Although ...

Authors: Malte Maria Sieren, Victoria Schultz, Buntaro Fujita, Franz Wegner, Markus Huellebrand, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Hans-Hinrich Sievers, Joerg Barkhausen, Alex Frydrychowicz and Thekla Helene Oechtering

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) guidance for re-activation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance practice after peak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

During the peak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, alterations of standard operating procedures were necessary for health systems to protect patients and healthcare workers and ensure access to vital hospital res...

Authors: Bradley D. Allen, Timothy C. Wong, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Jennifer Bryant, Tiffany Chen, Erica Dall’Armellina, J. Paul Finn, Marianna Fontana, Marco Francone, Yuchi Han, Allison G. Hays, Ron Jacob, Chris Lawton, Warren J. Manning, Karen Ordovas, Purvi Parwani…

Progression and regression of left ventricular hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis in a mouse model of hypertension and concomitant cardiomyopathy

Myocardial fibrosis is observed in multiple cardiac conditions including hypertension and aortic stenosis. Excessive fibrosis is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, but longitudinal human data regarding...

Authors: Jacek Kwiecinski, Ross J. Lennen, Gillian A. Gray, Gary Borthwick, Lyndsey Boswell, Andrew H. Baker, David E. Newby, Marc R. Dweck and Maurits A. Jansen

Rapid whole-heart CMR with single volume super-resolution

Three-dimensional, whole heart, balanced steady state free precession (WH-bSSFP) sequences provide delineation of intra-cardiac and vascular anatomy. However, they have long acquisition times. Here, we propose...

Authors: Jennifer A. Steeden, Michael Quail, Alexander Gotschy, Kristian H. Mortensen, Andreas Hauptmann, Simon Arridge, Rodney Jones and Vivek Muthurangu

Functional assessment of bioprosthetic mitral valves by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: An in vitro validation and comparison to Doppler echocardiography

A comprehensive non-invasive evaluation of bioprosthetic mitral valve (BMV) function can be challenging. We describe a novel method to assess BMV effective orifice area (EOA) based on phase contrast (PC) cardi...

Authors: Dimitrios Maragiannis, Matthew S. Jackson, Kyle Autry, Jose H. Flores Arredondo, Constantina Aggeli, Dimitrios Tousoulis, William A. Zoghbi, Dipan J. Shah and Stephen H. Little

Breath-hold and free-breathing quantitative assessment of biventricular volume and function using compressed SENSE: a clinical validation in children and young adults

Although the breath-hold cine balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) imaging is well established for assessment of biventricular volumes and function, shorter breath-hold times or no breath-holds are be...

Authors: Murat Kocaoglu, Amol S. Pednekar, Hui Wang, Tarek Alsaied, Michael D. Taylor and Mantosh S. Rattan

Myocardial strain analysis of the right ventricle: comparison of different cardiovascular magnetic resonance and echocardiographic techniques

Right ventricular (RV) strain is a useful predictor of prognosis in various cardiovascular diseases, including those traditionally believed to impact only the left ventricle. We aimed to determine inter-modali...

Authors: Jennifer Erley, Radu Tanacli, Davide Genovese, Natalie Tapaskar, Nina Rashedi, Paulius Bucius, Keigo Kawaji, Ilya Karagodin, Roberto M. Lang, Sebastian Kelle, Victor Mor-Avi and Amit R. Patel

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging derived septal curvature in neonates with bronchopulmonary dysplasia associated pulmonary hypertension

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) associated with pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a significant source of morbidity and mortality in premature infants. Recent advances have allowed the use of cardiovascular magn...

Authors: Paul J. Critser, Nara S. Higano, Sean M. Lang, Paul S. Kingma, Robert J. Fleck, Russel Hirsch, Michael D. Taylor and Jason C. Woods

Motion-corrected 3D whole-heart water-fat high-resolution late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Conventional 2D inversion recovery (IR) and phase sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) have been widely incorporated into routine CMR fo...

Authors: Camila Munoz, Aurelien Bustin, Radhouene Neji, Karl P. Kunze, Christoph Forman, Michaela Schmidt, Reza Hajhosseiny, Pier-Giorgio Masci, Martin Zeilinger, Wolfgang Wuest, René M. Botnar and Claudia Prieto

Reduced right ventricular function on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is associated with uteroplacental impairment in tetralogy of Fallot

Maternal right ventricular (RV) dysfunction (measured by echocardiography) is associated with impaired uteroplacental circulation, however echocardiography has important limitations in the assessment of RV fun...

Authors: Anne S. Siegmund, Tineke P. Willems, Petronella G. Pieper, Caterina M. Bilardo, Thomas M. Gorter, Berto J. Bouma, Monique R. M. Jongbloed, Gertjan Tj. Sieswerda, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Arie P. J. van Dijk, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen and Michael G. Dickinson

Myofiber organization in the failing systemic right ventricle

The right ventricle (RV) often fails when functioning as the systemic ventricle, but the cause is not understood. We tested the hypothesis that myofiber organization is abnormal in the failing systemic right v...

Authors: Cosimo M. Campanale, Benoit Scherrer, Onur Afacan, Amara Majeed, Simon K. Warfield and Stephen P. Sanders

Clinical outcomes after primary prevention defibrillator implantation are better predicted when the left ventricular ejection fraction is assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

The left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the key selection criterion for an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. LVEF is usually assessed by two-dim...

Authors: Laure Champ-Rigot, Pauline Gay, Frédéric Seita, Leila Benouda, Remy Morello, Arnaud Pellissier, Joachim Alexandre, Eric Saloux and Paul Milliez

Real-time cardiovascular magnetic resonance T1 and extracellular volume fraction mapping for tissue characterisation in aortic stenosis

Myocardial fibrosis is a major determinant of outcome in aortic stenosis (AS). Novel fast real-time (RT) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) mapping techniques allow comprehensive quantification of fibrosi...

Authors: Sören J. Backhaus, Torben Lange, Bo Eric Beuthner, Rodi Topci, Xiaoqing Wang, Johannes T. Kowallick, Joachim Lotz, Tim Seidler, Karl Toischer, Elisabeth M. Zeisberg, Miriam Puls, Claudius Jacobshagen, Martin Uecker, Gerd Hasenfuß and Andreas Schuster

Correction to: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance native T₂ and T₂^* quantitative values for cardiomyopathies and heart transplantations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: G. J. H. Snel, M. van den Boomen, L. M. Hernandez, C. T. Nguyen, D. E. Sosnovik, B. K. Velthuis, R. H. J. A. Slart, R. J. H. Borra and N. H. J. Prakken

Evaluation of aortic stenosis using cardiovascular magnetic resonance: a systematic review & meta-analysis

As the average age of patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) who receive procedural intervention continue to age, the need for non-invasive modalities that provide accurate diagnosis and operative planning ...

Authors: Kei Woldendorp, Paul G. Bannon and Stuart M. Grieve

Left ventricular functional recovery of infarcted and remote myocardium after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (METOCARD-CNIC randomized clinical trial substudy)

We aimed to evaluate the effect of early intravenous metoprolol treatment, microvascular obstruction (MVO), intramyocardial hemorrhage (IMH) and adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling on the evolution of inf...

Authors: Tomaž Podlesnikar, Gonzalo Pizarro, Rodrigo Fernández-Jiménez, Jose M. Montero-Cabezas, Nina Greif, Javier Sánchez-González, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Zlatko Fras, Jeroen J. Bax, Valentin Fuster, Borja Ibáñez and Victoria Delgado

The reliability and feasibility of non-contrast adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance T1 mapping in patients on haemodialysis

Identifying coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is challenging. Adenosine stress native T1 mapping with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) may accurately detect o...

Authors: Federica E Poli, Gaurav S Gulsin, Daniel S March, Ahmed MSEK Abdelaty, Kelly S Parke, Joanne V Wormleighton, Gerry P McCann, James O Burton and Matthew PM Graham-Brown

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking for characterization of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: correlation of global longitudinal strain with invasive diastolic functional indices

Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is the main cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and is characterized by LV stiffness and relaxation. Abnormal LV global longitudinal str...

Authors: Haruno Ito, Masaki Ishida, Wakana Makino, Yoshitaka Goto, Yasutaka Ichikawa, Kakuya Kitagawa, Taku Omori, Kaoru Dohi, Masaaki Ito and Hajime Sakuma

A direct comparison of 3 T contrast-enhanced whole-heart coronary cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography to dual-source computed tomography angiography for detection of coronary artery stenosis: a single-center experience

In recent years, substantial advances have been made in noninvasive cardiac imaging, including cardiac computed tomography (CT) and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). The purpose of this study was to pro...

Authors: Bin Sun, Zhiyong Chen, Qing Duan, Yunjing Xue, Lianglong Chen, Zhongshuai Zhang and Jing An