Issue 4/2018
Content (21 Articles)
In-stent fractional flow reserve variations and related optical coherence tomography findings: the FFR–OCT co-registration study
Stylianos A. Pyxaras, Tom Adriaenssens, Emanuele Barbato, Giovanni Jacopo Ughi, Luigi Di Serafino, Frederic De Vroey, Gabor Toth, Shengxian Tu, Johan H. C. Reiber, Jeroen J. Bax, William Wijns
Optical coherence tomography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention compared with other imaging guidance: a meta-analysis
Kayode O. Kuku, Emmanuel Ekanem, Viana Azizi, Gebremedhin Melaku, Anh Bui, Yael F. Meirovich, Aaphtaab Dheendsa, Solomon Beyene, Alexandre Hideo-Kajita, Michael J. Lipinski, Ron Waksman, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia
Very early neointimal coverage of new biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stent compared with durable polymer everolimus-eluting stent evaluated by optical frequency domain imaging
Norihiro Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Ito, Masahiro Yamawaki, Motoharu Araki, Tsuyoshi Sakai, Yasunari Sakamoto, Shinsuke Mori, Masakazu Tsutsumi, Masahiro Nauchi, Yohsuke Honda, Takahiro Tokuda, Kenji Makino, Shigemitsu Shirai, Keisuke Hirano
Pulmonary vascular resistance and proper timing of percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy
Laila M. Elmaghawry, Ibtesam I. El-Dosouky, Nader T. Kandil, Ahmad Mohammad Sayyid-Ahmad Sayyid-Ahmad
Genetic influence on femoral plaque and its relationship with carotid plaque: an international twin study
Pierleone Lucatelli, Corrado Fagnani, Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, David Laszlo Tarnoki, Beatrice Sacconi, Bence Fejer, Maria Antonietta Stazi, Miriam Salemi, Carlo Cirelli, Alessandro d’Adamo, Fabrizio Fanelli, Carlo Catalano, Pal Maurovich-Horvat, Adam L. Jermendy, Gyorgy Jermendy, Bela Merkely, Andrea A. Molnar, Giacomo Pucci, Giuseppe Schillaci, Filippo Farina, Giorgio Meneghetti, Claudio Baracchini, Emanuela Medda
Placing heart failure and diastolic dysfunction in the case of cardiac amyloid into perspective: what an amyloid heart really looks like
Daniel Jacoby, Anna Rodonski, Nikolaos Papoutsidakis, Pramod Bonde
Clinical outcome and functional characteristics of patients with asymptomatic low-flow low-gradient severe aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction are closer to high-gradient severe than to moderate aortic stenosis
Mohammad Kavianipour, Amir Farkhooy, Frank A. Flachskampf
Prognostic value of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography compared to two-dimensional echocardiography in patients with systolic heart failure
Frederico J. N. Mancuso, Valdir A. Moises, Dirceu R. Almeida, Dalva Poyares, Luciana J. Storti, Flavio S. Brito, Sergio Tufik, Angelo A. V. de Paola, Antonio C. C. Carvalho, Orlando Campos
Two-dimensional speckle-tracking global longitudinal strain in high-sensitivity troponin-negative low-risk patients with unstable angina: a “resting ischemia test”?
Patrícia Marques-Alves, Nuno Espírito-Santo, Rui Baptista, Rogério Teixeira, Rui Martins, Francisco Gonçalves, Mariano Pego
Relation of presystolic wave on doppler examination to syntax score in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Ihsan Dursun, Selim Kul, Sinan Sahin, Ezgi Kalaycioglu, Ali Riza Akyuz, Levent Korkmaz
Clinical applications of multiparametric CMR in left ventricular hypertrophy
Sabrina Nordin, Luke Dancy, James C. Moon, Daniel M. Sado
Mechanical dyssynchrony alters left ventricular flow energetics in failing hearts with LBBB: a 4D flow CMR pilot study
Jakub Zajac, Jonatan Eriksson, Urban Alehagen, Tino Ebbers, Ann F. Bolger, Carl-Johan Carlhäll
CMR assessment and clinical outcomes of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with or without ventricular remodeling in the end-stage phase
Sainan Cheng, Yeon Hyeon Choe, Hideki Ota, Chen Cui, Gang Yin, Minjie Lu, Lu Li, Xiuyu Chen, Sanjay K. Prasad, Shihua Zhao
Quantification of pulmonary regurgitation and prediction of pulmonary valve replacement by echocardiography in patients with congenital heart defects in comparison to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Claudia Dellas, Laura Kammerer, Verena Gravenhorst, Joachim Lotz, Thomas Paul, Michael Steinmetz
Comparison of effects of losartan and metoprolol on left ventricular and aortic function at rest and during exercise in chronic aortic regurgitation
Paul A. Roberts, Aaron C. W. Lin, Brett R. Cowan, Alistair A. Young, Ralph Stewart
Disagreement between splenic switch-off and myocardial T1-mapping after caffeine intake
Dirkjan Kuijpers, Randy van Dijk, Marly van Assen, Theodorus A. M. Kaandorp, Paul R. M. van Dijkman, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, Pim van der Harst, Matthijs Oudkerk
Image quality improvements using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction for evaluating chronic myocardial infarction using iodine density images with spectral CT
Junichi Kishimoto, Yasutoshi Ohta, Shinichiro Kitao, Tomomi Watanabe, Toshihide Ogawa
Relationship between airflow obstruction and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic individuals: evaluation by coronary CT angiography
Jin-Jin Kim, Dong-Bin Kim, Sung-Won Jang, Eun Joo Cho, Kiyuk Chang, Sang Hong Baek, Ho-Joong Youn, Wook Sung Chung, Ki-Bae Seung, Tai-Ho Rho, Jung Im Jung, Byung-Hee Hwang
Fusion of CT coronary angiography and whole-heart dynamic 3D cardiac MR perfusion: building a framework for comprehensive cardiac imaging
Jochen von Spiczak, Robert Manka, Alexander Gotschy, Sabrina Oebel, Sebastian Kozerke, Sandra Hamada, Hatem Alkadhi
Impact of incomplete ventricular coverage on diagnostic performance of myocardial perfusion imaging
Behzad Sharif, Manish Motwani, Reza Arsanjani, Rohan Dharmakumar, Mathews B. Fish, Guido Germano, Debiao Li, Daniel S. Berman, Piotr Slomka
Correction to: Myocardial T1 mapping and extracellular volume quantification: an overview of technical and biological confounders
Stefan K. Piechnik, Michael Jerosch-Herold