Recent technical developments in cardiovascular imaging have led to a number of options
for the non-invasive investigation of cardiovascular disease. Often, the choice of imaging …

Importance Among patients with suspected coronary heart disease (CHD), rates of invasive
angiography are considered too high. Objective To test the hypothesis that among patients …

Background—Cardiac remodeling occurs in response to regular athletic training, and the
degree of remodeling is associated with fitness. Understanding the myocardial structural …

Purpose To investigate the pharmacology and potential clinical utility of splenic switch-off to
identify understress in adenosine perfusion cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging …

Background Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and elevated urinary albumin: creatinine
ratio (ACR) have increased risk of heart failure. We hypothesized this was because of …

Aims Patients with cardiac disease are considered high risk for poor outcomes following
hospitalization with COVID-19. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate heterogeneity …

Objectives: In the setting of reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the authors sought
to compare prediction of contractile recovery by infarct extracellular volume (ECV), as …

Background Cardiac adaptation to aortic stenosis (AS) appears to differ according to sex, but
reverse remodeling after aortic valve replacement has not been extensively described. The …

Background Aberrant coronary arteries represent a diverse group of congenital disorders.
Post-mortem studies reveal a high risk of exercise-related sudden cardiac death in those …

Background Regional contractile dysfunction is a frequent finding in hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy (HCM). We aimed to investigate the contribution of different tissue …