4004 ESC Guidelines label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in
the patient's interest to do so, with regard to the quality, safety, and efficacy of care, and only …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs of about 20 nucleotides in length,
involved in the regulation of many biochemical pathways in the human body. The level of …

Radiomics is a new emerging field that includes extraction of metrics and quantification of so-
called radiomic features from medical images. The growing importance of radiomics applied …

Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) imaging is a non-invasive technique used for the
evaluation of tissue vascularity features through imaging series acquisition after contrast …

Metabolic and overload disorders are a heterogeneous group of relatively uncommon but
important diseases. While imaging plays a key role in the early detection and accurate …

Objective Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an uncontested diagnostic tool for
identifying and assessing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients. Concerning the …

Athlete's heart (AH) is the result of morphological and functional cardiac modifications due to
long-lasting athletic training. Athletes can develop very marked structural myocardial …

Background Hepatic alterations are common aftereffects of heart failure (HF) and ventricular
dysfunction. The prognostic value of liver injury markers derived from cardiac MRI studies in …

Since 1997, heart failure (HF) has been designated as a new epidemic. However, it is not
easy to find a proper definition since different descriptors are used in clinical practice …

Hypertrophic heart phenotype is characterized by an abnormal left ventricular (LV)
thickening. A hypertrophic phenotype can develop as adaptive response in many different …