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Feasibility of adenosine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance perfusion imaging in patients with MR-conditional transvenous permanent pacemakers and defibrillators

The use of stress perfusion-cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging remains limited in patients with implantable devices. The primary goal of the study was to assess the safety, image quality, and the ...

Authors: Anna Giulia Pavon, Alessandra Pia Porretta, Dimitri Arangalage, Giulia Domenichini, Tobias Rutz, Sarah Hugelshofer, Etienne Pruvot, Pierre Monney, Patrizio Pascale and Juerg Schwitter

Efficient non-contrast enhanced 3D Cartesian cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography of the thoracic aorta in 3 min

The application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) for the assessment of thoracic aortic disease is often associated with prolonged and unpredictable acquisition times and residual motion ...

Authors: Anastasia Fotaki, Camila Munoz, Yaso Emanuel, Alina Hua, Filippo Bosio, Karl P. Kunze, Radhouene Neji, Pier Giorgio Masci, René M. Botnar and Claudia Prieto

A novel approach to determine aortic valve area with phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the diagnostic routine standard for assessing aortic stenosis (AS). However, its inaccuracies in determining stroke volume (SV) and aortic valve area (AVA) call for a mo...

Authors: Felix Troger, Ivan Lechner, Martin Reindl, Christina Tiller, Magdalena Holzknecht, Mathias Pamminger, Christian Kremser, Johannes Schwaiger, Sebastian J. Reinstadler, Axel Bauer, Bernhard Metzler, Agnes Mayr and Gert Klug

Accelerated cardiac T₁ mapping in four heartbeats with inline MyoMapNet: a deep learning-based T₁ estimation approach

To develop and evaluate MyoMapNet, a rapid myocardial T₁ mapping approach that uses fully connected neural networks (FCNN) to estimate T₁ values from four T₁-weighted images collected after a single inversion pul...

Authors: Rui Guo, Hossam El-Rewaidy, Salah Assana, Xiaoying Cai, Amine Amyar, Kelvin Chow, Xiaoming Bi, Tuyen Yankama, Julia Cirillo, Patrick Pierce, Beth Goddu, Long Ngo and Reza Nezafat

Evidence-based cardiovascular magnetic resonance cost-effectiveness calculator for the detection of significant coronary artery disease

Although prior reports have evaluated the clinical and cost impacts of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for low-to-intermediate-risk patients with suspected significant coronary artery disease (CAD), th...

Authors: Ankur Pandya, Yuan-Jui Yu, Yin Ge, Eike Nagel, Raymond Y. Kwong, Rafidah Abu Bakar, John D. Grizzard, Alexander E. Merkler, Ntobeko Ntusi, Steffen E. Petersen, Nina Rashedi, Juerg Schwitter, Joseph B. Selvanayagam, James A. White, James Carr, Subha V. Raman…

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance perspective on the 2021 AHA/ACC Chest Pain Guidelines

Authors: Andrew E. Arai, Raymond Y. Kwong, Michael Salerno, John P. Greenwood and Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci

Ventricular flow analysis and its association with exertional capacity in repaired tetralogy of Fallot: 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Four-dimensional (4D) flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) allows quantification of biventricular blood flow by flow components and kinetic energy (KE) analyses. However, it remains unclear whether 4D ...

Authors: Xiaodan Zhao, Liwei Hu, Shuang Leng, Ru-San Tan, Ping Chai, Jennifer Ann Bryant, Lynette L. S. Teo, Marielle V. Fortier, Tee Joo Yeo, Rong Zhen Ouyang, John C. Allen, Marina Hughes, Pankaj Garg, Shuo Zhang, Rob J. van der Geest, James W. Yip…

Association of left atrial strain by cardiovascular magnetic resonance with recurrence of atrial fibrillation following catheter ablation

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a progressive condition, which is characterized by inflammation/fibrosis of left atrial (LA) wall, an increase in the LA size/volumes, and decrease in LA function. We sought to inve...

Authors: Mina M. Benjamin, Naeem Moulki, Aneeq Waqar, Harish Ravipati, Nancy Schoenecker, David Wilber, Menhel Kinno, Mark Rabbat, Thriveni Sanagala and Mushabbar A. Syed

Normal sex and age-specific parameters in a multi-ethnic population: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study of the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds cohort

Despite the growing utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for cardiac morphology and function, sex and age-specific normal reference values derived from large, multi-ethnic data sets are lacking. ...

Authors: Judy M. Luu, Catherine Gebhard, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Dipika Desai, Karleen Schulze, Francois Marcotte, Philip Awadalla, Philippe Broet, Trevor Dummer, Jason Hicks, Eric Larose, Alan Moody, Eric E. Smith, Jean-Claude Tardif, Tiago Teixeira, Koon K. Teo…

Myocardial involvement in children with post-COVID multisystem inflammatory syndrome: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance based multicenter international study—the CARDOVID registry

Recent evidence shows an association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and a severe inflammatory syndrome in children. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) data about myocardial injury i...

Authors: Florence A. Aeschlimann, Nilanjana Misra, Tarique Hussein, Elena Panaioli, Jonathan H. Soslow, Kimberly Crum, Jeremy M. Steele, Steffen Huber, Simona Marcora, Paolo Brambilla, Supriya Jain, Maria Navallas, Valentina Giuli, Beate Rücker, Felix Angst, Mehul D. Patel…

SCMR level II/independent practitioner training guidelines for cardiovascular magnetic resonance: integration of a virtual training environment

Authors: Amit R. Patel, Sebastian Kelle, Marianna Fontana, Ron Jacob, Jadranka Stojanovska, Jeremy Collins, Hena N. Patel, Marco Francone, Yuchi Han, W. Patricia Bandettini, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Subha Raman and Gaby Weissman

Direct mitral regurgitation quantification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using 4D flow CMR jet tracking: evaluation in comparison to conventional CMR

Quantitative evaluation of mitral regurgitation (MR) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) relies on an indirect volumetric calculation. The aim of this study was to d...

Authors: Aakash N. Gupta, Ryan Avery, Gilles Soulat, Bradley D. Allen, Jeremy D. Collins, Lubna Choudhury, Robert O. Bonow, James Carr, Michael Markl and Mohammed S. M. Elbaz

MVnet: automated time-resolved tracking of the mitral valve plane in CMR long-axis cine images with residual neural networks: a multi-center, multi-vendor study

Mitral annular plane systolic excursion (MAPSE) and left ventricular (LV) early diastolic velocity (e’) are key metrics of systolic and diastolic function, but not often measured by cardiovascular magnetic res...

Authors: Ricardo A. Gonzales, Felicia Seemann, Jérôme Lamy, Hamid Mojibian, Dan Atar, David Erlinge, Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg, Håkan Arheden, Chenxi Hu, John A. Onofrey, Dana C. Peters and Einar Heiberg

Myocardial mechanics in dilated cardiomyopathy: prognostic value of left ventricular torsion and strain

Data on the prognostic value of left ventricular (LV) morphological and functional parameters including LV rotation in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) a...

Authors: Andreas Ochs, Johannes Riffel, Marco M. Ochs, Nisha Arenja, Thomas Fritz, Christian Galuschky, Andreas Schuster, Oliver Bruder, Heiko Mahrholdt, Evangelos Giannitsis, Norbert Frey, Hugo A. Katus, Sebastian J. Buss and Florian André

Multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance with regadenoson stress perfusion is safe following pediatric heart transplantation and identifies history of rejection and cardiac allograft vasculopathy

The progressive risk of graft failure in pediatric heart transplantation (PHT) necessitates close surveillance for rejection and coronary allograft vasculopathy (CAV). The current gold standard of surveillance...

Authors: Nazia Husain, Kae Watanabe, Haben Berhane, Aditi Gupta, Michael Markl, Cynthia K. Rigsby and Joshua D. Robinson

Correction to: The association of reduced left ventricular strains with increased extracellular volume and their collective impact on clinical outcomes

Authors: Chunna Jin, Jonathan Weber, Harsimar Singh, Kathleen Gliganic and J. Jane Cao

Adverse fibrosis remodeling and aortopulmonary collateral flow are associated with poor Fontan outcomes

The extent and significance in of cardiac remodeling in Fontan patients are unclear and were the subject of this study.

Authors: Andrea Pisesky, Marjolein J. E. Reichert, Charlotte de Lange, Mike Seed, Shi-Joon Yoo, Christopher Z. Lam and Lars Grosse-Wortmann

Peak flow measurements in patients with severe aortic stenosis: a prospective comparative study between cardiovascular magnetic resonance 2D and 4D flow and transthoracic echocardiography

Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most prevalent valvular disease in the developed countries. Four-dimensional (4D) flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an emerging imaging technique, which has been...

Authors: Reetta Hälvä, Satu M. Vaara, Juha I. Peltonen, Touko T. Kaasalainen, Miia Holmström, Jyri Lommi, Satu Suihko, Helena Rajala, Minna Kylmälä, Sari Kivistö and Suvi Syväranta

Atri-U: assisted image analysis in routine cardiovascular magnetic resonance volumetry of the left atrium

Artificial intelligence can assist in cardiac image interpretation. Here, we achieved a substantial reduction in time required to read a cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) study to estimate left atrial vo...

Authors: Constantin Anastasopoulos, Shan Yang, Maurice Pradella, Tugba Akinci D’Antonoli, Sven Knecht, Joshy Cyriac, Marco Reisert, Elias Kellner, Rita Achermann, Philip Haaf, Bram Stieltjes, Alexander W. Sauter, Jens Bremerich, Gregor Sommer and Ahmed Abdulkadir

Impaired left atrial reservoir and conduit strain in patients with atrial fibrillation and extensive left atrial fibrosis

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with profound structural and functional changes in the atria. In the present study, we investigated the association between left atrial (LA) phasic function and the exten...

Authors: Luuk H. G. A. Hopman, Mark J. Mulder, Anja M. van der Laan, Ahmet Demirkiran, Pranav Bhagirath, Albert C. van Rossum, Cornelis P. Allaart and Marco J. W. Götte

Myocardial changes on 3T cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in response to haemodialysis with fluid removal

Mapping of left ventricular (LV) native T1 is a promising non-invasive, non-contrast imaging biomarker. Native myocardial T1 times are prolonged in patients requiring dialysis, but there are concerns that the ...

Authors: Alastair J. Rankin, Kenneth Mangion, Jennifer S. Lees, Elaine Rutherford, Keith A. Gillis, Elbert Edy, Laura Dymock, Thomas A. Treibel, Aleksandra Radjenovic, Rajan K. Patel, Colin Berry, Giles Roditi and Patrick B. Mark

Progressive myocardial injury in myotonic dystrophy type II and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance follow-up study

Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a progressive disease with predominantly muscular symptoms. Myotonic dystrophy type II (MD2) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1 (FSHD1) are gaining an increasing aware...

Authors: Edyta Blaszczyk, Carolin Lim, Peter Kellman, Luisa Schmacht, Jan Gröschel, Simone Spuler and Jeanette Schulz-Menger

Bright-blood and dark-blood phase sensitive inversion recovery late gadolinium enhancement and T1 and T2 maps in a single free-breathing scan: an all-in-one approach

Quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 and T2 mapping are used to detect diffuse disease such as myocardial fibrosis or edema. However, post gadolinium contrast mapping often lacks visual cont...

Authors: Peter Kellman, Hui Xue, Kelvin Chow, James Howard, Liza Chacko, Graham Cole and Marianna Fontana

Standards for writing Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) endorsed guidelines, expert consensus, and recommendations: a report of the publications committee

Authors: Seth Uretsky, Niti Aggarwal, Ruud B. van Heeswijk, Saurabh Rajpal, Ethan Rowin, Michael D. Taylor, Johan W. Verjans, Anita Wokhlu, Michael Markl, Subha V. Raman and Dipan J. Shah

Accuracy of stroke volume measurement with phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with aortic stenosis

Phase contrast (PC) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in the ascending aorta (AAo) is widely used to calculate left ventricular (LV) stroke volume (SV). The accuracy of PC CMR may be altered by turbulent...

Authors: Ezequiel Guzzetti, Hugo-Pierre Racine, Lionel Tastet, Mylène Shen, Eric Larose, Marie-Annick Clavel, Philippe Pibarot and Jonathan Beaudoin

Dark blood cardiovascular magnetic resonance of the heart, great vessels, and lungs using electrocardiographic-gated three-dimensional unbalanced steady-state free precession

Recently, we reported a novel neuroimaging technique, unbalanced T1 Relaxation-Enhanced Steady-State (uT₁RESS), which uses a tailored 3D unbalanced steady-state free precession (3D uSSFP) acquisition to suppress ...

Authors: Robert R. Edelman, Nondas Leloudas, Jianing Pang and Ioannis Koktzoglou

Non-transmural myocardial infarction associated with regional contractile function is an independent predictor of positive outcome: an integrated approach to myocardial viability

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance permits assessment of irreversible myocardial fibrosis and contractile function in patients with previous myocardial infarction. We aimed to assess the prognostic value of myo...

Authors: Gianluca Di Bella, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Jan Bogaert, Paolo Piaggi, Antonio Micari, Fausto Pizzino, Giovanni Camastra, Scipione Carerj, Mariapaola Campisi, Antonio Bracco, Maria Ludovica Carerj, Michele Emdin, Bijoy K. Khandheria and Alessandro Pingitore

Pulmonary blood volume measured by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: influence of pulmonary transit time methods and left atrial volume

Increased pulmonary blood volume (PBV) is a measure of congestion and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events. PBV can be quantified using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging ...

Authors: Anders Nelsson, Mikael Kanski, Henrik Engblom, Martin Ugander, Marcus Carlsson and Håkan Arheden

Reduced exercise capacity in patients with systemic sclerosis is associated with lower peak tissue oxygen extraction: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance-augmented cardiopulmonary exercise study

Exercise intolerance in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is typically attributed to cardiopulmonary limitations. However, problems with skeletal muscle oxygen extraction have not been fully investigated. This study us...

Authors: James T. Brown, Tushar Kotecha, Jennifer A. Steeden, Marianna Fontana, Christopher P. Denton, J. Gerry Coghlan, Daniel S. Knight and Vivek Muthurangu

Morphological and functional cardiac consequences of rapid hypertension treatment: a cohort study

Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH) in uncontrolled hypertension is an independent predictor of mortality, though its regression with treatment improves outcomes. Retrospective data suggest that early cont...

Authors: Andrew N. Jordan, Jon Fulford, Kim Gooding, Christine Anning, Lindsay Wilkes, Claire Ball, Nicola Pamphilon, David Mawson, Christopher E. Clark, Angela C. Shore, Andrew S. P. Sharp and Nicholas G. Bellenger

Endogenous T1ρ cardiovascular magnetic resonance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by increased left ventricular wall thickness, cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, and fibrosis. Adverse cardiac risk characterization has been performed using late gad...

Authors: Elizabeth W. Thompson, Srikant Kamesh Iyer, Michael P. Solomon, Zhaohuan Li, Qiang Zhang, Stefan Piechnik, Konrad Werys, Sophia Swago, Brianna F. Moon, Zachary B. Rodgers, Anya Hall, Rishabh Kumar, Nosheen Reza, Jessica Kim, Alisha Jamil, Benoit Desjardins…

Free-breathing high resolution modified Dixon steady-state angiography with compressed sensing for the assessment of the thoracic vasculature in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) is a non-invasive imaging modality of choice in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). This study was aimed to evaluate the diagnostic util...

Authors: Narine Mesropyan, Alexander Isaak, Darius Dabir, Christopher Hart, Anton Faron, Christoph Endler, Dmitrij Kravchenko, Christoph Katemann, Claus C. Pieper, Daniel Kuetting, Ulrike I. Attenberger and Julian A. Luetkens

Endogenous assessment of myocardial injury with single-shot model-based non-rigid motion-corrected T1 rho mapping

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance T1ρ mapping may detect myocardial injuries without exogenous contrast agent. However, multiple co-registered acquisitions are required, and the lack of robust motion correctio...

Authors: Aurélien Bustin, Solenn Toupin, Soumaya Sridi, Jérôme Yerly, Olivier Bernus, Louis Labrousse, Bruno Quesson, Julien Rogier, Michel Haïssaguerre, Ruud van Heeswijk, Pierre Jaïs, Hubert Cochet and Matthias Stuber

Exercise-induced irregular right heart flow dynamics in adolescents and young adults born preterm

Preterm birth has been linked to an elevated risk of heart failure and cardiopulmonary disease later in life. With improved neonatal care and survival, most infants born preterm are now reaching adulthood. In ...

Authors: Jacob A. Macdonald, Grant S. Roberts, Philip A. Corrado, Arij G. Beshish, Kristin Haraldsdottir, Gregory P. Barton, Kara N. Goss, Marlowe W. Eldridge, Christopher J. Francois and Oliver Wieben

Myocardial strain assessment using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly used in the evaluation of patients who are potential candidates for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy to assess left ventricular (LV) ...

Authors: Nigel S. Tan, Djeven P. Deva, Kim A. Connelly, Paul Angaran, Iqwal Mangat, Laura Jimenez-Juan, Ming-Yen Ng, Kamran Ahmad, Vamshi K. Kotha, Joao A. C. Lima, Andrew M. Crean, Paul Dorian and Andrew T. Yan

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

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

Quantitative assessment of velocity and flow using compressed SENSE in children and young adults with adequate acquired temporal resolution

Phase contrast (PC) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with parallel imaging acceleration is established and validated for measuring velocity and flow. However, additional acceleration to further ...

Authors: Murat Kocaoglu, Amol Pednekar, Jean A. Tkach and Michael D. Taylor

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessment of coronary flow reserve improves risk stratification in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) has been proposed as a novel mechanism for the pathophysiology of heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Recent studies have suggested the potenti...

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

In Memoriam, Nathaniel M. Reichek, MD, 1941–2021

Authors: Christopher M. Kramer and Victor Ferrari

Global, segmental and layer specific analysis of myocardial involvement in Duchenne muscular dystrophy by cardiovascular magnetic resonance native T1 mapping

Progressive cardiomyopathy accounts for almost all mortality among Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients.‍ Thus, our aim was to comprehensively characterize myocardial involvement by investigating the het...

Authors: Ke Xu, Hua-yan Xu, Rong Xu, Lin-jun Xie, Zhi-gang Yang, Li Yu, Bin Zhou, Hang Fu, Hui Liu, Xiao-tang Cai and Ying-kun Guo

Incremental value of left atrial booster and reservoir strain in predicting atrial fibrillation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Left atrial (LA) size and function are known predictors of new onset atrial fibrillation (AF) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients. Components of LA deformation including reservoir, conduit, and boost...

Authors: Betty Raman, Robert W. Smillie, Masliza Mahmod, Kenneth Chan, Rina Ariga, Chrysovalantou Nikolaidou, Elizabeth Ormondroyd, Kate Thomson, Andrew R. Harper, Gifford Tan, Adam J. Lewandowski, Fernando Rodriguez Bajo, Eleanor C. Wicks, Barbara Casadei, Hugh Watkins and Stefan Neubauer

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2020 Case of the Week series

The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) is an international society focused on the research, education, and clinical application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). Case of the week is...

Authors: Jason N. Johnson, Jason G. Mandell, Adam Christopher, Laura J. Olivieri, Yue-Hin Loke, Michael J. Campbell, Steve Darty, Han W. Kim, Daniel E. Clark, Benjamin P. Frischhertz, Frank A. Fish, Alison L. Bailey, Michael B. Mikolaj, Sean G. Hughes, Afiachukwu Oneugbu, Jina Chung…

Mitral valve prolapse morphofunctional features by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: more than just a valvular disease

Mitral valve (MV) prolapse (MVP) is a primary valvular abnormality. We hypothesized that additionally there are concomitant abnormalities of the left ventricle (LV) and MV apparatus in this entity even in the ...

Authors: Angélica Romero Daza, Aalap Chokshi, Patricia Pardo, Nicolas Maneiro, Ana Guijarro Contreras, Jose M. Larrañaga-Moreira, Borja Ibañez, Valentin Fuster, Leticia Fernández Friera, Jorge Solís and Javier Sanz

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance evaluation of soldiers after recovery from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case–control study of cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (CV PASC)

Myocarditis is a potential complication after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and a known cause of sudden cardiac death. Given the athletic demands of soldiers, identific...

Authors: Daniel E. Clark, Jeffrey M. Dendy, Dan L. Li, Kimberly Crum, Debra Dixon, Kristen George-Durrett, Amar P. Parikh, Jean W. Wassenaar, Sean G. Hughes and Jonathan H. Soslow

Right-left ventricular shape variations in tetralogy of Fallot: associations with pulmonary regurgitation

Relationships between right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) shape and function may be useful in determining optimal timing for pulmonary valve replacement in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fall...

Authors: Charlène A. Mauger, Sachin Govil, Radomir Chabiniok, Kathleen Gilbert, Sanjeet Hegde, Tarique Hussain, Andrew D. McCulloch, Christopher J. Occleshaw, Jeffrey Omens, James C. Perry, Kuberan Pushparajah, Avan Suinesiaputra, Liang Zhong and Alistair A. Young

Quantification of myocardial hemorrhage using T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance at 1.5T with ex-vivo validation

T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is commonly used in the diagnosis of intramyocardial hemorrhage (IMH). For quantifying IMH with T2* CMR, despite the lack of consensus studies, two different methods...

Authors: Yinyin Chen, Daoyuan Ren, Xingmin Guan, Hsin-Jung Yang, Ting Liu, Richard Tang, Hao Ho, Hang Jin, Mengsu Zeng and Rohan Dharmakumar

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of functional and microstructural changes of the heart in a longitudinal pig model of acute to chronic myocardial infarction

We examined the dynamic response of the myocardium to infarction in a longitudinal porcine study using relaxometry, functional as well as diffusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). We sought to compare...

Authors: Christian T. Stoeck, Constantin von Deuster, Maximilian Fuetterer, Malgorzata Polacin, Conny F. Waschkies, Robbert J. H. van Gorkum, Mareike Kron, Thea Fleischmann, Nikola Cesarovic, Miriam Weisskopf and Sebastian Kozerke

Myocardial extracellular volume by T1 mapping: a new marker of arrhythmia in mitral valve prolapse

We aimed to evaluate the relationship between mitral annular disjunction (MAD) severity and myocardial interstitial fibrosis at the left ventricular (LV) base in patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP), and ...

Authors: Anna Giulia Pavon, Dimitri Arangalage, Patrizio Pascale, Sarah Hugelshofer, Tobias Rutz, Alessandra Pia Porretta, Mathieu Le Bloa, Olivier Muller, Etienne Pruvot, Juerg Schwitter and Pierre Monney

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance findings in young adult patients with acute myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination: a case series

Messenger RNA (mRNA) coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine are known to cause minor side effects at the injection site and mild global systemic symptoms in first 24–48 h. Recently published case serie...

Authors: Yash R. Patel, David W. Louis, Michael Atalay, Saurabh Agarwal and Nishant R. Shah

Altered hemodynamics by 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance predict exercise intolerance in repaired coarctation of the aorta: an in vitro study

Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is associated with decreased exercise capacity despite successful repair. Altered flow patterns have been identified due to abnormal aortic arch geometry. Our previous work demon...

Authors: Jason G. Mandell, Yue-Hin Loke, Paige N. Mass, Vincent Cleveland, Marc Delaney, Justin Opfermann, Seda Aslan, Axel Krieger, Narutoshi Hibino and Laura J. Olivieri