ALLMedicine™ Cardiovascular Imaging Center

Nov 30th, 2022 - Mitral annular early diastolic velocity (e') measured using Doppler echocardiography is important for the noninvasive estimation of left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP). However, it remains unknown whether lateral or septal e' is prognosticall...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Segmentation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images is an essential step for evaluating dimensional and functional ventricular parameters as ejection fraction (EF) but may be limited by artifacts, which represent the major challenge to ...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 C...

Nov 19th, 2022 - Cardiovascular safety of marathon running middle-aged amateurs remains unclear. We previously hypothesized that transient release of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), in addition to an acute infla...

Nov 16th, 2022 - This review focuses on three key noninvasive cardiac imaging modalities-cardiac CT angiography (CTA), MRI, and PET/CT-and summarizes key publications in 2021 relevant to radiologists in clinical practice. Although this review focuses primarily on ...

Nov 28th, 2022 - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 C...

Oct 18th, 2022 - Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) improves the quality of care for patients presenting with acute chest pain (ACP) to the emergency department (ED), particularly in patients with low to intermediate likelihood of acute coronary syndro...

Sep 18th, 2022 - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 C...

Jul 22nd, 2022 - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 C...

Jun 22nd, 2022 - Non-Invasive Imaging in Coronary Syndromes: Recommendations of The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography, in Collaboration with The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society of Cardiovasc...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Cardiac CT angiography is associated with radiation exposure. Different methods of creating CT pictures have been developed to reduce the radiation dose to the subject. The purpose of this research study is to learn whether these new imaging metho...

Sep 29th, 2022 - The HICC registry is an observational, multicenter, international registry collecting de-identified clinical and genetic information from patients with homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) worldwide. Patients are eligible to be enrolled...

Aug 24th, 2022 - The goals of this study are to better understand ways in which HIV infection-incited systemic immune activation and inflammation augment MI risk among women. To this end, WHIV and non-HIV-infected women will undergo structural and functional cardi...

Jul 11th, 2022 - Study Description: Heart failure (HF) remains a significant public health burden despite expanding and improving treatment options. Clinical and pre-clinical studies have demonstrated compelling relationships between inflammation, myocardial dysfu...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Study Design: The investigators will conduct a prospective, single-center, observational study at the Cardiovascular Imaging Network at Queen's (CINQ, www.CINQLab.com). This facility allows a CEUS protocol to be conducted on the same day as the an...

Nov 29th, 2022 - A new collaborative position paper on radiation exposure during pregnancy states that pregnant women can safely work in an ionizing radiation environment if exposure to the fetus does not exceed certain dose thresholds. The position paper aims to ...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Is diabetes slipping in importance as a cardiovascular risk factor? (JAMA) Morning exercisers in the U.K. Biobank tended to have lower cardiovascular disease risk than those saving their physical activity for midday. (European Journal of Preventiv...

Sep 21st, 2022 - The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has issued an expert consensus statement to guide use of cardiac computed tomography (CCT) in the care of cardio-oncology patients. This statement addresses "gaps in recommendations on the r...

Sep 20th, 2022 - Approximately 6 months after COVID vaccine-related myocarditis, follow-up MRI scans suggest some recovery in left ventricular ejection fraction and decline in late gadolinium enhancement. (JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging) Around the world, diet quali...

Sep 16th, 2022 - Prosthesis-patient mismatch — when a patient with aortic stenosis is given a valve prosthesis with an effective orifice area that is too small in relation to body size — is associated with higher risk of mortality, even in patients undergoing tran...