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The Impact of Coronary Artery Calcification on Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2021
Decades of research and experimental studies have investigated various strategies to prevent acute coronary events. However, significantly efficient preventive methods have not been developed and still remains a challenge to determine if a coronary ...
Mitra Noémi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards standardized postprocessing of global longitudinal strain by feature tracking – OptiStrain CMR-FT study

open access: yesBMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2019
Background Left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS) with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an important prognostic biomarker. Its everyday clinical use is limited due to methodological and postprocessing diversity among the users and ...
Robert Heinke   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risks of cardiac imaging [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2011
With regard to the research article by Eisenberg and colleagues,[1][1] the authors only briefly note that the radiation-associated increase in cancer risk is higher than for atomic bomb survivors in the Life Span Study (LSS).[2][2] In the LSS, the excess relative risk per sievert (Sv) for the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Three-dimensional thoracic aorta principal strain analysis from routine ECG-gated computerized tomography: feasibility in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement

open access: yesBMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2018
Background Functional impairment of the aorta is a recognized complication of aortic and aortic valve disease. Aortic strain measurement provides effective quantification of mechanical aortic function, and 3-dimenional (3D) approaches may be desirable ...
Alessandro Satriano   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impaired cardiac autonomic nervous control after cardiac bypass surgery for congenital heart disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We undertook a study to describe changes in heart rate variability (HRV) postoperatively in children undergoing cardiac bypass surgery for congenital heart disease (CHD).
McGlone, Laura   +5 more
core   +4 more sources

Fat volume measurements as a predictor of image noise in coronary computed tomography angiography

open access: yesJournal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2019
Introduction: Image noise can negatively affect the overall quality of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA). Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between image noise and fat volumes in the chest wall.
Rami M. Abazid   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Congenital Absence of Left Main Trunk – CCTA Evaluation of a Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2021
Coronary artery anomalies represent a heterogeneous group of congenital diseases with various clinical presentations. Over time, the subject of coronary anomalies has been constantly changing in terms of definition, morphology, clinical manifestations ...
Țolescu Cosmin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CMR for malignant cardiac tumors Diagnosis, approach, and follow-up

open access: yes, 2022
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard noninvasive imaging modality to assess tissue characteristics in vivo which gives it a unique advantage in discriminating benign cardiac masses from malignant tumors.
Gupta, Neha,   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of Cardiac Masses: A Case Series

open access: yesMedicina, 2023
Cardiac masses are currently studied using multimodality imaging. For diagnosis, different imaging techniques that can provide complementary information are used.
Jorge Joaquín Castro-Martín   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of three risk stratification systems in a Saudi population

open access: yesJournal of the Saudi Heart Association, 2017
Introduction: Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Although there are a number of algorithms in use for determining the risk of coronary artery disease and thus predicting future cardiovascular events, the data available ...
Rami Abazid   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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