Emerging as a new epidemic, long COVID or post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19), a condition characterized by the persistence of COVID-19 symptoms …

Strain-based imaging techniques (and specifically speckle-tracking echocardiography) have
been shown to have clinical utility in a variety of settings. This technique is being embraced …

Myocardial strain is a principle for quantification of left ventricular (LV) function which is now
feasible with speckle-tracking echocardiography. The best evaluated strain parameter is …

Background: A systemic proinflammatory state has been hypothesized to mediate the
association between comorbidities and abnormal cardiac structure/function in heart failure …

Purpose To develop a deep learning–based method for fully automated quantification of left
ventricular (LV) function from short-axis cine MR images and to evaluate its performance in a …

Background Dyspnea is a common symptom affecting as many as 25% of patients seen in
the ambulatory setting. It can arise from many different underlying conditions and is …

Physical exercise promotes cardiorespiratory fitness, and is considered the mainstream of
non-pharmacological therapies along with lifestyle modification for various chronic diseases …

Objectives: The goal of our study was to investigate the potential of myocardial shear wave
imaging (SWI) to quantify the diastolic myocardial stiffness (MS)(kPa) noninvasively in adult …

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction presents a challenging diagnosis given a
heterogeneous patient population and limited therapeutic options. Diastolic function …

Background Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is recognized as playing a major role
in the pathophysiology of heart failure; however, clinical tools for identifying diastolic …