Artificial intelligence in cardiovascular medicine: clinical applications

TF Lüscher, FA Wenzl, F D'Ascenzo… - European heart …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Clinical medicine requires the integration of various forms of patient data including
demographics, symptom characteristics, electrocardiogram findings, laboratory values …

Epicardial fat in heart failure—Friend, foe, or bystander

A Paterek, M Załęska‐Kocięcka, Z Wojdyńska… - Obesity …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a fat depot covering the heart. No physical barrier
separates EAT from the myocardium, so EAT can easily affect the underlying cardiac …

Effect of vessel attenuation, VMI level, and reconstruction kernel on pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation for EID CT and PCD CT: an ex vivo porcine heart study

J Pitteloud, LJ Moser, K Klambauer… - American Journal of …, 2024 - ajronline.org
BACKGROUND. Pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation and the fat attenuation
index (FAI) may serve as markers of inflammation and the risk of adverse cardiac events …

Pericoronary adipose tissue for predicting long-term outcomes

SE van Rosendael, V Kamperidis… - European Heart …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims Pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation obtained by coronary computed
tomography angiography (CCTA) has been associated with coronary inflammation and …

Fully automated epicardial adipose tissue volume quantification with deep learning and relationship with CAC score and micro/macrovascular complications in people …

B Gaborit, JB Julla, J Fournel, P Ancel… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
Background The aim of this study (EPIDIAB) was to assess the relationship between
epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and the micro and macrovascular complications (MVC) of …

CTA-derived pericoronary fat attenuation index predicts allograft rejection and cardiovascular events in heart transplant recipients

A Sansonetti, M Belmonte, M Masetti… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - jacc.org
The prognosis of heart transplant (HTx) recipients remains significantly hampered by cardiac
allograft rejection (CAR) and cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV). Post-transplant …

[HTML][HTML] Injection of ROS-Responsive Hydrogel Loaded with IL-1β-targeted nanobody for ameliorating myocardial infarction

L Wang, C Yu, T You, X Zhang, H Su, B Cao… - Bioactive Materials, 2025 - Elsevier
The cardiac microenvironment profoundly restricts the efficacy of myocardial regeneration
tactics for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI). A prospective approach for MI …

Cost-effectiveness of a novel AI technology to quantify coronary inflammation and cardiovascular risk in patients undergoing routine coronary computed tomography …

A Tsiachristas, K Chan, E Wahome… - … Journal-Quality of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is a first-line investigation for
chest pain in patients with suspected obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). However …

Calcification vs Inflammation: The Modern Toolkit for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

C Antoniades, K Chan - Cardiovascular Imaging, 2024 - jacc.org
For more than 2 decades, coronary calcification has been used as an imaging biomarker on
computed tomography (CT) to detect the presence of atherosclerosis, and it has been …

Cardiac CT in the context of value-based care

E Nicol, LJ Shaw - Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 2024 - Elsevier
Cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is often used synonymously with coronary CT
angiography (CCTA) and coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS), but also encompasses …