Diffuse myocardial fibrosis: mechanisms, diagnosis and therapeutic approaches

B López, S Ravassa, MU Moreno, GS José… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Diffuse myocardial fibrosis resulting from the excessive deposition of collagen fibres through
the entire myocardium is encountered in a number of chronic cardiac diseases. This lesion …

Role of computed tomography in COVID-19

G Pontone, S Scafuri, ME Mancini, C Agalbato… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a rapid worldwide pandemic.
While COVID-19 primarily manifests as an interstitial pneumonia and severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular volume quantification with cardiac late enhancement scanning using dual-source photon-counting detector CT

V Mergen, T Sartoretti, E Klotz, B Schmidt… - Investigative …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of cardiac late
enhancement (LE) scanning for extracellular volume (ECV) quantification with dual-source …

Identifying cardiac amyloid in aortic stenosis: ECV quantification by CT in TAVR patients

PR Scully, KP Patel, B Saberwal, E Klotz… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Objectives The purpose of this study was to validate computed tomography measured ECV
(ECVCT) as part of routine evaluation for the detection of cardiac amyloid in patients with …

Characterizing the heart and the myocardium with photon-counting CT

E Zsarnóczay, A Varga-Szemes, T Emrich… - Investigative …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Noninvasive cardiac imaging has rapidly evolved during the last decade owing to
improvements in computed tomography (CT)–based technologies, among which we …

Myocardial late contrast enhancement CT in troponin-positive acute chest pain syndrome

A Palmisano, D Vignale, M Tadic, F Moroni… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Acute chest pain with mild troponin rise and inconclusive diagnosis after clinical
evaluation represents a diagnostic challenge. Triple-rule-out (TRO) CT may exclude …

Diabetes and myocardial fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DB Salvador Jr, MR Gamba, N Gonzalez-Jaramillo… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - jacc.org
Objectives This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the association of
diabetes and glycemic control with myocardial fibrosis (MF). Background MF is associated …

Cardiac computed tomographic imaging in cardio-oncology: An expert consensus document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) …

J Lopez-Mattei, EH Yang, LA Baldassarre… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cardio-Oncology is a rapidly growing sub-specialty of medicine, however, there is very
limited guidance on the use of cardiac CT (CCT) in the care of Cardio-Oncology patients. In …

[HTML][HTML] Valvular heart disease in patients with cardiac amyloidosis

A Aimo, L Camerini, I Fabiani, P Morfino… - Heart Failure …, 2024 - Springer
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is an underdiagnosed condition caused by the deposition of
misfolded proteins, namely immunoglobulin light chains and transthyretin, in the …

Cardiac safe hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for systemic sclerosis with poor cardiac function: a pilot safety study that decreases neutropenic interval to 5 days

RK Burt, X Han, K Quigley, I Arnautovic… - Bone Marrow …, 2021 - nature.com
We compared three fludarabine-based regimens for systemic sclerosis patients with a high-
risk cardiac phenotype that according to EBMT criteria would be a contraindication for a high …