Cardiac MRI: state of the art

PS Rajiah, CJ François, T Leiner - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Cardiac MRI plays an important role in the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs),
including ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, valvular disease, congenital disease …

Multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance approach in diagnosing, monitoring, and prognostication of myocarditis

C Eichhorn, S Greulich, C Bucciarelli-Ducci… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - jacc.org
Myocarditis represents the entity of an inflamed myocardium and is a diagnostic challenge
caused by its heterogeneous presentation. Contemporary noninvasive evaluation of patients …

Myocardial T1 and T2 mapping by magnetic resonance in patients with immune checkpoint inhibitor–associated myocarditis

P Thavendiranathan, L Zhang, A Zafar… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
Background Myocarditis is a potentially fatal complication of immune checkpoint inhibitor
(ICI) therapy. Data on the utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 and T2 …

Feature tracking myocardial strain incrementally improves prognostication in myocarditis beyond traditional CMR imaging features

K Fischer, SJ Obrist, SA Erne, AW Stark… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Objectives This study investigated the association of cardiovascular cardiac magnetic
resonance (CMR) feature tracking (FT) with outcome in a patient cohort with myocarditis and …

Multimodality imaging assessment of myocardial fibrosis

S Gupta, Y Ge, A Singh, C Gräni, RY Kwong - Cardiovascular Imaging, 2021 - jacc.org
Myocardial fibrosis, seen in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies, is associated with
adverse cardiac outcomes. Noninvasive imaging plays a key role in early identification and …

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 …

Myocarditis in athletes is a challenge: diagnosis, risk stratification, and uncertainties

C Eichhorn, L Bière, F Schnell, C Schmied… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Presentation of myocarditis in athletes is heterogeneous and establishing the diagnosis is
challenging with no current uniform clinical gold standard. The combined information from …

Myocarditis in athletes: a clinical perspective

M Halle, L Binzenhöfer, H Mahrholdt… - European journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Myocarditis is an important cause of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) in both
physically active individuals and athletes. Elite athletes seem to have an increased risk for …

Role of cardiac MRI in the diagnosis of immune checkpoint inhibitor‐associated myocarditis

R Cau, C Solinas, P De Silva… - … Journal of Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)‐induced cardiotoxicity is a rare immune‐related adverse
event (irAE) characterized by a high mortality rate. From a pathological point of view, this …

Pediatric myocarditis

JL Williams, HM Jacobs, S Lee - Cardiology and Therapy, 2023 - Springer
Myocarditis is a condition caused by acute or chronic inflammation of the cardiac myocytes,
resulting in associated myocardial edema and myocardial injury or necrosis. The exact …