Editor’s note February 2019

Cardiovascular imaging 2018 in the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Johan H. C. Reiber, Gabriel Tensol R. Pereira, Hiram G. Bezerra, Johan De Sutter, Paul Schoenhagen, Arthur E. Stillman, Nico R. L. Van de Veire

The relationship of pre-procedural Dmax based sizing to lesion level outcomes in Absorb BVS and Xience EES treated patients in the AIDA trial

Ruben Y. G. Tijssen, Laura S. M. Kerkmeijer, Yuki Katagiri, Robin P. Kraak, Kuniaki Takahashi, Norihiro Kogame, Ply Chichareon, Rodrigo Modolo, Taku Asano, Martina Nassif, Deborah N. Kalkman, Yohei Sotomi, Carlos Collet, Sjoerd H. Hofma, Rene J. van der Schaaf, E. Karin Arkenbout, Auke P. J. D. Weevers, Marcel A. M. Beijk, Jan J. Piek, Jan G. P. Tijssen, Jose P. Henriques, Robbert J. de Winter, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W. Serruys, Joanna J. Wykrzykowska

Procedural findings and early healing response after implantation of a self-apposing bioresorbable scaffold in coronary bifurcation lesions

Emil Nielsen Holck, Camilla Fox-Maule, Trine Ørhøj Barkholt, Lars Jakobsen, Shengxian Tu, Michael Maeng, Jouke Dijkstra, Evald Høj Christiansen, Niels Ramsing Holm

Right ventricular basal inflow and outflow tract diameters overestimate right ventricular size in subjects with sigmoid-shaped interventricular septum: a study using three-dimensional echocardiography

Kazunori Okada, Sanae Kaga, Kosuke Tsujita, Yoichi Sakamoto, Nobuo Masauzi, Taisei Mikami

Ventricular geometry–regularized QRSd predicts cardiac resynchronization therapy response: machine learning from crosstalk between electrocardiography and echocardiography

Juan Lei, Yi Grace Wang, Luna Bhatta, Jamal Ahmed, Dali Fan, Jingfeng Wang, Kan Liu

Interactive role of diastolic dysfunction and ventricular remodeling in asymptomatic subjects at increased risk of heart failure

Iacopo Fabiani, Nicola Riccardo Pugliese, Salvatore La Carrubba, Lorenzo Conte, Paolo Colonna, Pio Caso, Frank Benedetto, Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Rodolfo Citro, Frank Lloyd Dini, Scipione Carerj, Vitantonio Di Bello

Predictive value of exercise stress echocardiography in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic regurgitation and preserved left ventricular systolic function without LV dilatation

Su Yeon Lee, Sung-Ji Park, Eun Kyoung Kim, Sung-A Chang, Sang-Chol Lee, Joong Hyun Ahn, Keumhee Carriere, Seung Woo Park

The association between physical activity and cardiac performance is dependent on age: the Copenhagen City Heart Study

Gowsini Joseph, Rasmus Mogelvang, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Gitte Nielsen, Peter Schnohr, Peter Sogaard

Addition of price transparency to an education and feedback intervention reduces utilization of inpatient echocardiography by resident physicians

Patrick M. Kozak, Silas P. Trumbo, Bradley W. Christensen, David L. Leverenz, Matthew S. Shotwell, Adam J. Kingeter

Mechanical dispersion as a marker of left ventricular dysfunction and prognosis in stable coronary artery disease

Brede Kvisvik, Erika Nerdrum Aagaard, Lars Mørkrid, Helge Røsjø, Magnus Lyngbakken, Marit Kristine Smedsrud, Christian Eek, Bjørn Bendz, Kristina H. Haugaa, Thor Edvardsen, Jørgen Gravning

Left atrial volume index and left ventricular global longitudinal strain predict new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients with transient ischemic attack

Kenneth Bruun Pedersen, Charlotte Madsen, Niels Christian Foldager Sandgaard, Thomas Morris Hey, Axel Cosmus Pyndt Diederichsen, Søren Bak, Axel Brandes

Association between age and progression of carotid artery atherosclerosis: a serial high resolution magnetic resonance imaging study

Mingming Lu, Peng Peng, Huiyu Qiao, Yuanyuan Cui, Lu Ma, Bao Cui, Jianming Cai, Xihai Zhao

Combined T1-mapping and tissue tracking analysis predicts severity of ischemic injury following acute STEMI—an Oxford Acute Myocardial Infarction (OxAMI) study

Malgorzata Wamil, Alessandra Borlotti, Dan Liu, André Briosa e Gala, Alessia Bracco, Mohammad Alkhalil, Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Stefan K. Piechnik, Vanessa M. Ferreira, Adrian P. Banning, Rajesh K. Kharbanda, Stefan Neubauer, Robin P. Choudhury, Keith M. Channon, Erica Dall’Armellina

Left atrial fibrosis correlates with extent of left ventricular myocardial delayed enhancement and left ventricular strain in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Syed R. Latif, Vinh Q. Nguyen, Dana C. Peters, Aaron Soufer, Mariana L. Henry, Karl Grunseich, Jeffrey Testani, David J. Hur, Steffen Huber, Hamid Mojibian, Demetrius Dicks, Albert J. Sinusas, Judith L. Meadows, Nikolaos Papoutsidakis, Daniel Jacoby, Lauren A. Baldassarre

T1 reactivity as an imaging biomarker in myocardial tissue characterization discriminating normal, ischemic and infarcted myocardium

Marly van Assen, Randy van Dijk, Dirkjan Kuijpers, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Matthijs Oudkerk

Multimodality imaging for real-time image-guided left ventricular lead placement during cardiac resynchronization therapy implantations

Odette A. E. Salden, Hans T. van den Broek, Wouter M. van Everdingen, Firdaus A. A. Mohamed Hoesein, Birgitta K. Velthuis, Pieter A. Doevendans, Maarten-Jan Cramer, Anton E. Tuinenburg, Paul Leufkens, Frebus J. van Slochteren, Mathias Meine

Subtraction of time-resolved magnetic resonance angiography images improves visualization of the pulmonary veins and left atrium in adults with congenital heart disease: a novel post-processing technique

G. Sugrue, A. Cradock, A. McGee, C. McEntee, S. K. Eustace, P. Fitzpatrick, L. P. Lawler, J. G. Murray

Prevalence and morphology of myocardial crypts in normal and hypertrophied myocardium by computed tomography

Ziad Arow, Mithal Nassar, Daniel Monakier, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Ran Kornowski, Ashraf Hamdan

Brief review: Pulmonary artery aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms

Anouva Kalra-Lall, Jeffrey Donaldson, Charles Martin III

Role of imaging in diagnosis and management of left ventricular assist device complications

Xin Li, Victor Kondray, Sidhartha Tavri, Arjang Ruhparwar, Samuel Azeze, Aritra Dey, Sasan Partovi, Fabian Rengier

Comparison of sequential and high-pitch-spiral coronary CT-angiography: image quality and radiation exposure

D. Seppelt, C. Kolb, J. P. Kühn, U. Speiser, C. G. Radosa, S. Hoberück, R. T. Hoffmann, I. Platzek

Predictive value of coronary calcifications for future cardiac events in asymptomatic patients: underestimation of risk in asymptomatic smokers

Gregor S. Zimmermann, Tobias Rüther, Franz v. Ziegler, Martin Greif, Christoph Becker, Alexander Becker

Value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in differentiating malignancy of pulmonary artery from pulmonary thromboembolism: a cohort study and literature review

Xiao-Ying Xi, Wei Gao, Juan-Ni Gong, Xiao-Juan Guo, Jiao-Yan Wu, Yuan-Hua Yang, Min-Fu Yang