Subclinical alterations in myocardial structure and function occur early during the natural
disease course. In contrast, clinically overt signs and symptoms occur during late phases …

Myocardial strain is a measure of myocardial deformation, which is a more sensitive imaging
biomarker of myocardial disease than the commonly used ventricular ejection fraction …

Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current
classifications of HF categorize patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 50% or …

Aims A multitude of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) techniques are used for myocardial
strain assessment; however, studies comparing them are limited. We sought to compare …

Objectives The analysis of myocardial deformation using feature tracking in cardiovascular
MR allows for the assessment of global and segmental strain values. The aim of this study …

Purpose Myocardial feature‐tracking (FT) deformation imaging is superior for risk
stratification compared with volumetric approaches. Because there is no clear …

Aims: Cardiac strain parameters are increasingly measured to overcome shortcomings of
ejection fraction. For broad clinical use, this study provides reference values for the two …

Aims Although heart failure (HF) is a leading cause for hospitalization and mortality,
normalized and comparable non‐invasive assessment of haemodynamics and myocardial …

Background: Fast strain-encoded cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI, fast-SENC) is
a novel technology potentially improving characterization of heart failure (HF) patients by …

Background Right ventricular (RV) strain is a useful predictor of prognosis in various
cardiovascular diseases, including those traditionally believed to impact only the left …