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The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Ausgabe 1/2024

Inhalt (24 Artikel)

Open Access Original Paper

Evaluation of the image quality and validity of handheld echocardiography for stroke volume and left ventricular ejection fraction quantification: a method comparison study

Frederique M. de Raat, Joris van Houte, Leon. J. Montenij, Sjoerd Bouwmeester, Suzanne E. A. Felix, Peter Bingley, Esmée C. de Boer, Patrick Houthuizen, Arthur R. Bouwman

Open Access Original Paper

Echocardiographic mechanical dyssynchrony predicts long-term mortality in patients with cardiac resynchronisation therapy

Mohamed Abdelbaset Ahmed, Muhammed Gercek, Philipp Sommer, Volker Rudolph, Daniel Dumitrescu, Lothar Faber, Henrik Fox

Original Paper

Clinical and genetic predictors of cardiac dysfunction assessed by echocardiography in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis

Pedro Cortés, Abdelhadi A. Elsayed, Fernando F. Stancampiano, Fernanda M. Barusco, Brian P. Shapiro, Yan Bi, Michael G. Heckman, Zhongwei Peng, Prakash Kempaiah, William C. Palmer

Original Paper

Clinical comparison of a handheld cardiac ultrasound device for the assessment of left ventricular function

Andrea Teira Calderón, Molly Levine, Cristina Ruisánchez, David Serrano, Santiago Catoya, Miguel Llano, Piedad Lerena, José María Cuesta, Mónica Fernández-Valls, Francisco González Vilchez, Jose María de la Torre Hernández, Héctor M. García-García, Jose Antonio Vazquez de Prada

Open Access Original Paper

Improved identification of left atrial enlargement in patients with obesity

Yaar Aga, Yalin Acardag, Jie Fen Chin, Daan Kroon, Sanne Marjolein Snelder, Lotte De Groot-De Laat, Ulas Biter, Felix Zijlstra, Jasper Brugts, Bas van Dalen

Original Paper

Evaluation of cardiac findings in mucopolysaccharidosis

Bahar Dehghan, Noushin Rostampour, Mohsen Sedighi, Mohammad Hosseini Saryazdi, Mohammad Jokar Rizi, Neda Mostofizadeh, Mahin Hashemipour, Mehri Khoshhali

Letter to the Editor

The role of left atrial strain in Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction

Özden Seçkin Göbüt, Serkan Ünlü

Brief Communication

Echo HALT: do we really need a cardiac CT?

Giulia Passaniti, Francesca Romana Prandi, Samin Sharma, Annapoorna Kini, Stamatios Lerakis

Original Paper

Accuracy of free-breathing multi-parametric SASHA in identifying T1 and T2 elevations in pediatric orthotopic heart transplant patients

Devika P. Richmann, Jacqueline Contento, Vincent Cleveland, Karin Hamman, Tacy Downing, Joshua Kanter, John T. Berger III, Adam Christopher, Russell Cross, Kelvin Chow, Laura Olivieri

Original Paper

Cardiac and respiratory motion extraction for MRI using pilot tone–a patient study

Chong Chen, Yingmin Liu, Orlando P. Simonetti, Matthew Tong, Ning Jin, Mario Bacher, Peter Speier, Rizwan Ahmad

Original Paper

Atrial fibrosis by cardiac MRI is a correlate for atrial stiffness in patients with atrial fibrillation

Jérôme Lamy, Roy Taoutel, Romy Chamoun, Joseph Akar, Steven Niederer, Hamid Mojibian, Steffen Huber, Lauren A. Baldassarre, Judith Meadows, Dana C. Peters

Research Article

Significantly elevated hepatic extracellular volume in adult patients with a Fontan circulation and its correlation with impaired functional capacity

Surachai Kongrat, Tananya Lueangklanlayanakhun, Varinsawat Prakongwong, Watcharee Prasertkulchai, Tarinee Tangcharoen

Open Access Original Paper

Myocardial fibrosis associates with lupus anticoagulant in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Katrine A. Myhr, Amanda H. Zinglersen, Redi Pecini, Søren Jacobsen

Original Paper

Right and left ventricular cardiac magnetic resonance imaging derived peak systolic strain is abnormal in children with myocarditis

Elisa Rhee, Julija Dobrila, Harmanpreet Kaur, Mehul D. Patel, Santosh C. Uppu

Original Paper

Distribution of normalized pulmonary transit time per pathology in a population of routine CMR examinations

A. Jossart, B. Gerber, L. Houard, B. Pilet, S. O’Connor, R. Gilles

Original Paper

Abbreviated cardiac magnetic resonance imaging versus echocardiography for interval assessment of systolic function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: patient satisfaction, clinical utility, and image quality

Hamsika Chandrasekar, Beth D. Kaufman, Meaghan J. Beattie, Daniel B. Ennis, Ali B Syed, Evan J. Zucker, Shiraz A Maskatia

Original Paper

Cardiac MRI of characteristic motion findings in right bundle branch block

Leon Axel, Mikael Kanski, Geraldine Villasana Gomez, Elliott Gozansky, James S. Babb

Original Paper

Calcium score of the entire thoracic aorta is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in patients referred to chest computed tomography

Yafim Brodov, Eias Massalha, Joseph Shemesh, Gabriel Chodick, Varda Shalev, Michal Guindy, Orly Goitein

Original Paper

Comparison of the prognostic value between quantification and visual estimation of coronary calcification from attenuation CT in patients undergoing SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Attila Feher, Konrad Pieszko, Aakash Shanbhag, Mark Lemley, Robert JH Miller, Cathleen Huang, Leonidas Miras, Yi-Hwa Liu, Jamie Gerber, Albert J. Sinusas, Edward J. Miller, Piotr J. Slomka

Open Access Original Paper

Murray law-based quantitative flow ratio to assess left main bifurcation stenosis: selecting the angiographic projection matters

Nozomi Kotoku, Kai Ninomiya, Daixin Ding, Neil O’Leary, Akihiro Tobe, Kotaro Miyashita, Shinichiro Masuda, Shigetaka Kageyama, Scot Garg, Jonathon A. Leipsic, Saima Mushtaq, Daniele Andreini, Kaoru Tanaka, Johan de Mey, William Wijns, Shengxian Tu, Nicolo Piazza, Yoshinobu Onuma, Patrick W. Serruys

Letter to the Editor

Long COVID and myocardial ischemia: how aware are we?

Bülent Özlek, Fatih Akın, İbrahim Altun

Screening-Mammografie offenbart erhöhtes Herz-Kreislauf-Risiko

26.04.2024 Mammografie Nachrichten

Routinemäßige Mammografien helfen, Brustkrebs frühzeitig zu erkennen. Anhand der Röntgenuntersuchung lassen sich aber auch kardiovaskuläre Risikopatientinnen identifizieren. Als zuverlässiger Anhaltspunkt gilt die Verkalkung der Brustarterien.

Niedriger diastolischer Blutdruck erhöht Risiko für schwere kardiovaskuläre Komplikationen

25.04.2024 Hypotonie Nachrichten

Wenn unter einer medikamentösen Hochdrucktherapie der diastolische Blutdruck in den Keller geht, steigt das Risiko für schwere kardiovaskuläre Ereignisse: Darauf deutet eine Sekundäranalyse der SPRINT-Studie hin.

Therapiestart mit Blutdrucksenkern erhöht Frakturrisiko

25.04.2024 Hypertonie Nachrichten

Beginnen ältere Männer im Pflegeheim eine Antihypertensiva-Therapie, dann ist die Frakturrate in den folgenden 30 Tagen mehr als verdoppelt. Besonders häufig stürzen Demenzkranke und Männer, die erstmals Blutdrucksenker nehmen. Dafür spricht eine Analyse unter US-Veteranen.

Adipositas-Medikament auch gegen Schlafapnoe wirksam

24.04.2024 Adipositas Nachrichten

Der als Antidiabetikum sowie zum Gewichtsmanagement zugelassene Wirkstoff Tirzepatid hat in Studien bei adipösen Patienten auch schlafbezogene Atmungsstörungen deutlich reduziert, informiert der Hersteller in einer Vorab-Meldung zum Studienausgang.

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