BACKGROUND Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a clinically proven and reliable diagnostic method for the assessment of morphology, function, and characteristics of myocardial tissue in patients with myocardial diseases. The use of gadolinium contrast agents has created new diagnostic possibilities for tissue characterisation in patients with suspected or known cardiomyopathy, my...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging uniquely characterizes myocardial and microvascular injury in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), providing powerful surrogate markers of outcomes. The last 10 years have seen an exponential increase in AMI studies utilizing CMR based endpoints. This article provides a contemporary, comprehensive review of the powerful role of CMR imaging in the as...

BACKGROUND In patients with mitral regurgitation (MR), assessment of the severity of valvular dysfunction is crucial. Recently, regurgitant orifice area has been proposed as the most useful indicator of the severity of MR. The purpose of our study was to determine whether planimetry of the anatomic regurgitant orifice (ARO) in patients with MR is feasible by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (C...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) to assess myocardial infarct (MI) size in reperfused patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). BACKGROUND There is limited guidance on the use of CMR in clinical cardioprotection RCTs in patients with STEMI treated by primary percutaneous coronary i...

BACKGROUND The effective orifice area (EOA) estimated by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TTE) via the continuity equation is commonly used to determine the severity of aortic stenosis (AS). However, there are often discrepancies between TTE-derived EOA and invasive indices of stenosis, thus raising uncertainty about actual definite severity. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has e...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background A new functional mapping strategy based on targeting deceleration zones (DZs) has become one the most commonly used strategies within armamentarium substrate-based ablation methods for ventricular tachycardia (VT) in patients with structural heart disease. The classic conduction channels detected by voltage can be accur...

OBJECTIVES In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients undergoing surgical myectomy, we sought to determine the association between pre-operative cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) findings, small intramural coronary arteriole dysplasia (SICAD) on histopathology, and ventricular tachycardia (VT). BACKGROUND Myocardial scarring (fibrosis) and SICAD are frequently observed on histopathology in ...