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The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Issue 2/2021

Content (41 Articles)

Original Paper

Can the degree of coronary collateralization be used in clinical routine as a valid angiographic parameter of viability?

Maja Pirnat, Arthur E. Stillman, Rainer Rienmueller, Marko Noc, Mario Gorenjak, Tomaž Šeruga

Angiography Original Paper

Intra-procedural three-dimensional rotational angiography in cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation

Vedran Velagic, Giacomo Mugnai, Domagoj Kardum, Ivan Prepolec, Vedran Pasara, Mislav Puljevic, Davor Puljevic, Ivo Planinc, Jure Samardzic, Maja Cikes, Davor Milicic

Systemic and local factors associated with reduced thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients with plaque erosion detected by intravascular optical coherence tomography

Jifei Wang, Chao Fang, Shaotao Zhang, Lulu Li, Jia Lu, Yidan Wang, Yini Wang, Huai Yu, Guo Wei, Yanwei Yin, Senqing Jiang, Junchen Guo, Fangmeng Lei, Huimin Liu, Maoen Xu, Xuefeng Ren, Lijia Ma, Yingfeng Tu, Lei Xing, Jingbo Hou, Jiannan Dai, Bo Yu

Temporal changes of incomplete stent apposition during early phase after everolimus-eluting stent implantation: serial optical coherence tomography analyses at 2-week and 4-month

Hirokazu Wakabayashi, Hirohiko Ando, Yusuke Nakano, Hiroaki Takashima, Katsuhisa Waseda, Masahiro Shimoda, Hirofumi Ohashi, Akihiro Suzuki, Shinichiro Sakurai, Tetsuya Amano

Arterial Diseases Original Paper

Comparison of serial optical coherence tomography imaging following aggressive stent expansion technique: insight from the MECHANISM study

Wataru Sasaki, Masaru Ishida, Tomonori Itoh, Yohei Uchimura, Hideto Oda, Yuya Taguchi, Kyosuke Kaneko, Tsubasa Sakamoto, Iwao Goto, Masafumi Sakuma, Daisuke Terashita, Hiromasa Otake, Toshiro Shinke, Yoshihiro Morino

Echocardiography Original Paper

Risk factors for right ventricular dysfunction in patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Wei Hua, Wenbo Yang, Jianing Gu, Jialiang Wu, Wei Wang, Yanpu Liu, Hong Zhu, Min Zhou, Jieming Qu, Yuehua Fang

Cardiac imaging phenotype in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): results of the cocarde study

Olivier Lairez, Virginie Blanchard, Valérie Houard, Fanny Vardon-Bounes, Maeva Lemasle, Eve Cariou, Yoan Lavie-Badie, Stéphanie Ruiz, Stéphanie Cazalbou, Clément Delmas, Bernard Georges, Michel Galinier, Didier Carrié, Jean-Marie Conil, Vincent Minville

Open Access Original Paper

Prevalence and morphological changes of carotid kinking and coiling in growth: an echo-color Doppler study of 2856 subjects between aged 0 to 96 years

Luigi Di Pino, Antonio G. Franchina, Serena Costa, Stella Gangi, Francesco Strano, Mario Ragusa, Luca Costanzo, Corrado Tamburino, Davide Capodanno

Impact of transcatheter aortic valve replacement on left ventricular hypertrophy, diastolic dysfunction and quality of life in patients with preserved left ventricular function

Garima Dahiya, Andreas Kyvernitakis, Aditya A. Joshi, David M. Lasorda, Stephen H. Bailey, Amresh Raina, Robert W. W. Biederman, Manreet K. Kanwar

Echocardiography Original Paper

Accuracy and sensitivity of three-dimensional echocardiography to detect changes in right ventricular volumes: comparison study with cardiac magnetic resonance

K. A. Myhr, C. B. Kristensen, F. H. G. Pedersen, C. Hassager, N. Vejlstrup, R. Mattu, R. Pecini, R. Mogelvang

Echocardiography Original Paper

Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with preserved versus mid-range ejection fraction

Ibrahim Marai, Nizar Andria, Liza Grosman-Rimon, Evgeni Hazanov, Wadi Kinany, Diab Ghanim, Offer Amir, Shemy Carasso

Angiography Original Paper

Diagnostic accuracy of regadenoson stress echocardiography: concordance with gated-spect myocardial perfusion imaging

Ignacio Iglesias-Garriz, Javier Vara-Manso, Ana Sevilla, Felix Corral, Jose A. Lastra, Eladio Rodríguez, Carmen Garrote, Samuel del Castillo, Carmen de la Fuente, Felipe Fernandez-Vazquez

Echocardiography Original Paper

Empagliflozin and left ventricular diastolic function following an acute coronary syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes

Nick S. R. Lan, Bu B. Yeap, P. Gerry Fegan, Gillian Green, James M. Rankin, Girish Dwivedi

Quantification of aortic valve area: comparison of different methods of echocardiography with 3-D scan of the excised valve

Samira Shirazi, Fatemeh Golmohammadi, Anahita Tavoosi, Mehrdad Salehi, Farnoosh Larti, Akram Sardari, Babak Geraiely, Mehrzad Rahmanian, Kianoush Saberi, Roya Sattarzadeh Badkoubeh

Echocardiography Original Paper

Multilayer global longitudinal strain assessment of subclinical myocardial dysfunction related to insulin resistance

Adem Atici, Ramazan Asoglu, Hasan Ali Barman, Remzi Sarikaya, Yucel Arman, Tufan Tukek

Normal reference values for mechanical mitral prosthetic valve inner diameters and areas assessed by two-dimensional and real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

Macit Kalçık, Mehmet Özkan, Sabahattin Gündüz, Mustafa Ozan Gürsoy, Mahmut Yesin, Emrah Bayam, Ahmet Güner, Semih Kalkan, Süleyman Karakoyun, Halil İbrahim Tanboğa

Sarcoidosis Original Paper

Is there an association between sarcoidosis and atherosclerosis?

Yusuf Yilmaz, Seref Kul, Murat Kavas, Hayriye Erman, Gonul Aciksari, Fatma Betul Ozcan, Emre Yalcinkaya, Asiye Kanbay, Mustafa Caliskan

Open Access Echocardiography Original Paper

Relationship between right and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction assessed by 2-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography in adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot

Makoto Miyake, Rie Abe, Hayato Matsutani, Jiro Sakamoto, Hirokazu Kondo, Atsushi Iwakura, Hiraku Doi, Toshihiro Tamura

Open Access Ultrasound Original Paper

A machine learning algorithm supports ultrasound-naïve novices in the acquisition of diagnostic echocardiography loops and provides accurate estimation of LVEF

Matthias Schneider, Philipp Bartko, Welf Geller, Varius Dannenberg, Andreas König, Christina Binder, Georg Goliasch, Christian Hengstenberg, Thomas Binder

Original Paper

Strain analysis using feature tracking cardiac magnetic resonance (FT-CMR) in the assessment of myocardial viability in chronic ischemic patients

Sara W. Tantawy, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Ahmed M. Osman, Wesam El Mozy, Ahmed S. Ibrahim

Myocardial involvement and deformation abnormalities in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy assessed by CMR feature tracking

Johannes Kersten, Ahmet Muhammed Güleroglu, Angela Rosenbohm, Dominik Buckert, Albert Christian Ludolph, Carsten Hackenbroch, Meinrad Beer, Peter Bernhardt

Open Access Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Original Paper

Effect of long term CPAP therapy on cardiac parameters assessed with cardiac MRI

W. Wuest, M. S. May, M. Wiesmueller, M. Uder, A. Schmid

Original Paper

Relationship between quality of coronary collateral and myocardial viability in chronic total occlusion: a magnetic resonance study

Khaled Abdel-Azim Shokry, El-Sayed Mohamed Farag, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Salem, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Ahmed El-Zayat, Ismail Mohamed Ibrahim

Open Access Cardiomyopathy Images in CV Applications

3D whole heart imaging in severe funnel chest and non-compaction cardiomyopathy

M. Polacin, P. Biaggi, H. Alkadhi, S. Kozerke, R. Manka

Cardiomyopathy Original Paper

Variations in native T1 values in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy with and without late gadolinium enhancement

Sean M. Lang, Tarek Alsaied, Philip R. Khoury, Thomas D. Ryan, Michael D. Taylor

Abnormal diastolic function and Global longitudinal strain in patients with Thalassemia Major on long term chelation therapy

Sunil K. Nadar, Shahina Daar, Wael A. Abdelmottaleb, Muhammad M. Shaikh, Hafsa Al Mahrouqi, Majida Al-Raiisi, Moez Hassan, Badar Al Rawahi, Sarah Al Rahbi

Aortic annular dimensions by non-contrast MRI using k–t accelerated 3D cine b-SSFP in pre-procedural assessment for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a technical feasibility study

Pascale Aouad, Kelly Brooke Jarvis, Marcos Ferreira Botelho, Ali Serhal, Julie Blaisdell, Louise Collins, Shivraman Giri, Daniel Kim, Michael Markl, Mark J. Ricciardi, Charles J. Davidson, Jeremy Collins, James Carr

Echocardiography Original Paper

Right ventricular diastolic function in aging: a head-to-head comparison between phase-contrast MRI and Doppler echocardiography

Nadjia Kachenoura, Emilie Bollache, Gilles Soulat, Stéphanie Clément-Guinaudeau, Golmehr Ashrafpoor, Ludivine Perdrix, Benoit Diebold, Magalie Ladouceur, Elie Mousseaux

Stroke Original Paper

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing cardiac MRI viability assessment prior to revascularization

Demetrios Doukas, Katerina Porcaro, Jessica Marot, Lucas Burke, Cara Joyce, Frances Weaver, James Nguyen, J. Jane Cao, Verghese Mathew, Alain Heroux, Mushabbar A. Syed

Stroke Original Paper

Exercise cardiovascular magnetic resonance: feasibility and development of biventricular function and great vessel flow assessment, during continuous exercise accelerated by Compressed SENSE: preliminary results in healthy volunteers

Thomas P. Craven, Nicholas Jex, Pei G. Chew, David M. Higgins, Malenka M. Bissell, Louise A. E. Brown, Christopher E. D. Saunderson, Arka Das, Amrit Chowdhary, Erica Dall’Armellina, Eylem Levelt, Peter P. Swoboda, Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood

CT Angiography Original Paper

Validation and update of the minimal risk tool in patients suspected of chronic coronary syndrome

Laust Dupont Rasmussen, Louise Nissen, Jelmer Westra, Lars Lyhne Knudsen, Lene Helleskov Madsen, Niels Ramsing Holm, Evald Høj Christiansen, Hans Erik Bøtker, Morten Bøttcher, Simon Winther

Transthoracic Echocardiography Images in CV Applications

Pulmonary valve in carcinoid disease: be suspicious of functional assessment

Alvaro Luis Gamarra, Alberto Cecconi, Antonio Rojas-Gonzalez, Maria Jose Olivera, Emilio Monguio, Luis Jesus Jimenez-Borreguero, Fernando Alfonso

The association between aortic valve calcification, cardiovascular risk factors, and cardiac size and function in a general population

Lida Khurrami, Jacob Eifer Møller, Jordi Sanchez Dahl, Rasmus Carter-Storch, Nicolaj Lyhne Christensen, Manan Pareek, Jes Sanddal Lindholt, Axel Cosmus Pyndt Diederichsen

CT Angiography Original Paper

Prevalence of coronary artery disease in symptomatic patients with zero coronary artery calcium score in different age population

Yi-tong Yu, Zhi-hui Hou, Bin Lu, Yun-qiang An, Yang Gao, Wei-hua Yin, Xin-shuang Ren

Dynamic monitoring of active calcification in atherosclerosis by 18F–NaF PET imaging

Yan Hu, Pengcheng Hu, Bingxin Hu, Weijia Chen, Dengfeng Cheng, Hongcheng Shi

Echocardiography Images in CV Applications

Left ventricular diverticulum vs. ventricular septal defect vs. ventricular aneurysm

Aleksandra Milovančev, Mila Kovačević, Aleksandar Lazarević, Aleksandra Ilić, Stefanović Maja, Anastazija Stojšić-Milosavljević