Increased myocardial extracellular volume is associated with myocardial iron overload and heart failure in thalassemia major

A Meloni, L Pistoia, V Positano, A De Luca, N Martini… - … Radiology, 2023 - Springer
extracellular volume fraction (ECV). In the absence of amyloid deposition or edema, increased
ECV results from increased myocardial collagen fraction … has quantified myocardial ECV …

Multiparametric Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Assessment in Sickle Beta Thalassemia

L Pistoia, A Meloni, V Positano, F Longo, Z Borsellino… - Diagnostics, 2024 - mdpi.com
… (Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia) project was an Italian network constituted by 66
thalassemia centers and 10 magnetic resonance imaging (… MRI to quantify cardiac and liver …

… feature-tracking derived left ventricular strain in predicting myocardial iron overload and assessing myocardial contractile dysfunction in patients with thalassemia …

V Ojha, KP Ganga, T Seth, A Roy, N Naik, P Jagia… - … Radiology, 2021 - Springer
Myocardial iron overload (MIO) in thalassemia major (TM) may cause subclinical left … in
ejection fraction (EF). Early detection of MIO using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)-T2…

Global and regional cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking left ventricular strain analysis in assessing early myocardial disease in β thalassemia major patients

NM Batouty, AM Tawfik, DM Sobh, BN Gadelhak… - … Cardiovascular Imaging, 2024 - Springer
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is the modality of choice for quantification of
myocardial iron overload in β-thalassemia … ) is a recent magnetic resonance imaging tool that …

Quantitative Myocardial Magnetic Resonance Imaging

P Triadyaksa - 2022 - research.rug.nl
quantification of myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) by cardiac MR shows a higher ECV
fraction in thalassemia … therapy, indicating the presence of myocardial fibrosis [92]. Although …

A two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography for the diagnosis of early myocardial disease in beta-thalassemia major patients

AAG Tantawy, NHK Elsherif, NM Habeeb… - … Pediatric Cardiology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
magnetic resonance imaging T2* is considered the gold standard to assess myocardial iron
overload in β-thalassemia … Recent data demonstrated that strain imaging by speckle tracking …

Left ventricular global function index is associated with myocardial iron overload and heart failure in thalassemia major patients

…, N Schicchi, A Vallone, MR Gamberini… - … Cardiovascular Imaging, 2023 - Springer
… The assessment and quantification of cardiac iron load is the key for the clinical management
of TM patients. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) using the T2* technique meets this …

Multi-parametric cardiac magnetic resonance for prediction of heart failure death in thalassemia major

A Meloni, L Pistoia, MR Gamberini, L Cuccia, R Lisi… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia (MIOT) network, comprising 70 thalassemia centers
and 10 magnetic resonance imaging (… , requiring MRI to quantify the cardiac and liver iron …

[HTML][HTML] … cardiac magnetic resonance T1 mapping and cardiac mechanics as assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with beta-thalassaemia …

WS See, EK So, GYY Hwang, L Chin, L Ip… - IJC Heart & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging … Although CMR T2* is the most used technique for
quantification of myocardial iron overload and that its use has led to substantial reduction of …

Multiparametric cardiac magnetic resonance in patients with thalassemia intermedia: new insights from the E-MIOT network

A Meloni, L Pistoia, P Ricchi, F Longo, V Cecinati… - La radiologia …, 2024 - Springer
… The T2* magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique is the … Cardiac magnetic resonance
(CMR) offers the possibility to … the heart, being the gold standard also for the quantification of …