In 1960, Dr Bayard Clarkson described a woman experiencing sporadic recurrent episodes
of shock and anasarca. Plasma from an acute attack induced a shock-like syndrome when …

Quantification of myocardial T1 relaxation has potential value in the diagnosis of both
ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies. Image acquisition using the modified Look …

Background—Myocardial fibrosis is a hallmark of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and a
potential substrate for arrhythmias and heart failure. Sarcomere mutations seem to induce …

Objectives: This study sought to determine whether the extent of late gadolinium
enhancement (LGE) can provide additive prognostic information in patients with a …

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most-common monogenically inherited form of
heart disease, characterized by thickening of the left ventricular wall, contractile dysfunction …

Aim Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can visualize inflammatory tissue changes in acute
myocarditis. Several quantitative image-derived parameters have been described to …

Background The late cardiotoxic effects of anthracycline chemotherapy influence morbidity
and mortality in the growing population of childhood cancer survivors. Even with lower …

Background: The Lake Louise Criteria (LLC) were established in 2009 and are the
recommended cardiac magnetic resonance imaging criterion for diagnosing patients with …

Purpose To evaluate MRI T1 and T2 mapping with calculation of extracellular volume (ECV)
for diagnosis and grading of liver fibrosis. Materials and Methods Different grades of fibrosis …

Objectives: In this study we sought to explore the relationship between cardiac magnetic
resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and histopathological …