Most patients survive acute myocardial infarction (MI). Yet this encouraging development
has certain drawbacks: heart failure (HF) prevalence is increasing and patients affected tend …

Aortic stenosis is characterized both by progressive valve narrowing and the left ventricular
remodeling response that ensues. The only effective treatment is aortic valve replacement …

Cardiac symptoms are increasingly recognized as late complications of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in previously well individuals …

Importance Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to cause considerable
morbidity and mortality worldwide. Case reports of hospitalized patients suggest that COVID …

Myocardial native T1 and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) mapping have emerged as
cardiac magnetic resonance biomarkers providing unique insight into cardiac …

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) involve multiple organs including the heart and
vasculature. Despite novel treatments, patients with ARDs still experience a reduced life …

Myocardial fibrosis, seen in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies, is associated with
adverse cardiac outcomes. Noninvasive imaging plays a key role in early identification and …

The current era has seen major advances in myocardial imaging. We are now able to
assess cardiac anatomy, function, tissue composition and disease activity across a wide …

Noninvasive cardiac imaging has rapidly evolved during the last decade owing to
improvements in computed tomography (CT)–based technologies, among which we …

In clinical decision making, myocardial viability is defined as myocardium in acute or chronic
coronary artery disease and other conditions with contractile dysfunction but maintained …