Acromegaly is a chronic systemic disease with many complications and is associated with
increased mortality when not adequately treated. Substantial advances in acromegaly …

Morphological and functional parameters such as chamber size and function, aortic
diameters and distensibility, flow and T1 and T2* relaxation time can be assessed and …

Delineation of the left ventricular cavity, myocardium, and right ventricle from cardiac
magnetic resonance images (multi-slice 2-D cine MRI) is a common clinical task to establish …

Abstract The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis was initiated in July 2000 to investigate
the prevalence, correlates, and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a …

LV. 5, 9 The deep muscle fibers of the RV are longitudinally aligned base to apex. In contrast
to the RV, the LV contains obliquely oriented myofibers superficially, longitudinally oriented …

Aims To develop and validate a non-invasive method for measuring myocardial iron in order
to allow diagnosis and treatment before overt cardiomyopathy and failure develops …

Fast breath-hold cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) shows excellent results for
interstudy reproducibility of left ventricular (LV) volumes, ejection fraction, and mass, which …

increase in ratio of angiotensin II AT2 to AT1 receptor subtypes). Some of these switches,
such as the increased expression of the slow myosin ATPase isoform-myosin heavy chain …

Background Emerging evidence suggests that stem cells and progenitor cells derived from
bone marrow can be used to improve cardiac function in patients after acute myocardial …

Background—Heart failure treatment depends partly on the underlying cause of the disease.
We evaluated cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) for the problem of differentiating …