Insights into cardiac involvement in ankylosing spondylitis from cardiovascular magnetic resonance

PS Biesbroek, SC Heslinga, TC Konings… - Heart, 2017 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To evaluate cardiac involvement in patients with ankylosing spondylitis using
cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). Methods Patients with ankylosing spondylitis without …

[HTML][HTML] Practical Guide to Interpreting Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Patients with Cardiac Masses

G Grazzini, S Pradella, A Rossi, RP Basile… - Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is common for a cardiac mass to be discovered accidentally during an echocardiographic
examination. Following the relief of a cardiac mass, being able to evaluate and characterize …

[HTML][HTML] Myocardial extracellular volume by T1 mapping: a new marker of arrhythmia in mitral valve prolapse

AG Pavon, D Arangalage, P Pascale… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives We aimed to evaluate the relationship between mitral annular disjunction (MAD)
severity and myocardial interstitial fibrosis at the left ventricular (LV) base in patients with …

[HTML][HTML] No adverse association between exercise exposure and diffuse myocardial fibrosis in male endurance athletes

K Andresen, LG Klæboe, ØH Lie, K Broch… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The potential association between endurance exercise and myocardial fibrosis is
controversial. Data on exercise exposure and diffuse myocardial fibrosis in endurance …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of standardizing timing of hematocrit measurement when using cardiovascular magnetic resonance to calculate myocardial extracellular volume …

H Engblom, M Kanski, S Kopic, D Nordlund… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can be used to calculate
myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV) by relating the longitudinal relaxation rate in …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic hematocrit derived from the longitudinal relaxation of blood can lead to clinically significant errors in measurement of extracellular volume fraction in …

FJ Raucci Jr, DA Parra, JT Christensen… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Extracellular volume fraction (ECV) is altered in pathological cardiac
remodeling and predicts death and arrhythmia. ECV can be quantified using cardiovascular …

Age matters: differences in exercise-induced cardiovascular remodelling in young and middle aged healthy sedentary individuals

C Torlasco, A D'Silva, AN Bhuva, A Faini… - European journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims Remodelling of the cardiovascular system (including heart and vasculature) is a
dynamic process influenced by multiple physiological and pathological factors. We sought to …

[HTML][HTML] Is a timely assessment of the hematocrit necessary for cardiovascular magnetic resonance–derived extracellular volume measurements?

MY Su, YS Huang, E Niisato, K Chow… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)–derived extracellular volume
(ECV) requires a hematocrit (Hct) to correct contrast volume distributions in blood. However …

[HTML][HTML] Noninvasive hematocrit assessment for cardiovascular magnetic resonance extracellular volume quantification using a point-of-care device and synthetic …

S Robison, GR Karur, RM Wald… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Calculation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) extracellular volume
(ECV) requires input of hematocrit, which may not be readily available. The purpose of this …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular volume fraction measurements derived from the longitudinal relaxation of blood-based synthetic hematocrit may lead to clinical errors in 3 T …

Y Shang, X Zhang, X Zhou, J Wang - Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background The extracellular volume (ECV), derived from cardiovascular magnetic
resonance (CMR) T1 mapping, is a biomarker of the extracellular space in the myocardium …