Although mortality after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) is on the decline,
the number of patients developing heart failure as a result of MI is on the rise. Apart from …

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is currently the leading cause of death in developed nations.
Reflecting the complexity of cardiac function and morphology, noninvasive diagnosis of CAD …

Heart failure has become a major problem in clinical cardiology, with recent estimations
showing that 4.9 million patients in the USA have chronic heart failure, with 550 000 new …

Background A comprehensive cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in reperfused ST-
segment myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients can be challenging to perform and can be …

PURPOSE: To combine three magnetic resonance (MR) imaging modalities—dobutamine
stress cine, first pass, and late contrast material–enhanced T1-weighted imaging—and to …

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging plays an important role in evaluation of various aspects
of myocardial infarction (MI). MR imaging is useful in establishing the diagnosis of acute MI …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has become the gold standard not only
for cardiac volume and function quantification, but for a key unique strength: non-invasive …

Background—T2-Weighted MRI reveals myocardial edema and enables estimation of the
ischemic area at risk and myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction …

Background T2w-CMR is used widely to assess myocardial edema. Quantitative T1-
mapping is also sensitive to changes in free water content. We hypothesized that T1 …

Mounting evidence indicates that T2-weighted images can be used not only to measure the
area at risk but also to refine our understanding of gadoliniumenhanced myocardium in the …