Myocardial strain is an important parameter of early to intermediate cardiac impairment which can be measured by echocardiography and MRI. On the long term, months to years after start of chemotherapy ...

Cardiac sarcoidosis is an infiltrative cardiomyopathy that results from granulomatous inflammation of the myocardium and may present with high-grade conduction disease, ventricular arrhythmias, and ...

Methods Two cardiac MRI cohorts were included: 2106 participants (median age: 65 years, 54% women) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and 2960 participants (median age: 64 years, 52 ...

For instance, 1 main advantage of cardiac MRI is that it allows tissue characterization with late gadolinium enhancement and parametric maps (T1, T2, T2*). As a result, more useful features might be ...

function in comparison with short-axis (SAX) function for prediction of long-term survival in patients with heart failure. Design: Prospective epidemiological study. Setting: University and county ...

The liver-heart axis involves metabolic, inflammatory ... fibrosis); includes IR and dyslipidemia Long feeding time; strain-specific differences 277 AMLN diet model HFHS diet inducing progressive ...

University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and ...

Background Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging provides critical insight into the prognosis of Fontan patients, enhancing our understanding of their long-term outcomes ... pleural effusion and/or ...