Background Accurate evaluation of valvular pathology is crucial in the timing of surgical
intervention. Whilst transthoracic echocardiography is widely available and routinely used in …

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a well-set diagnostic technique for
assessment of valvular heart diseases and is gaining ground in current clinical practice. It …

BACKGROUND: Aortic valve disease (AVD) is associated with high mortality and morbidity.
To date, there is no pharmacological therapy available to prevent AVD progression …

Population aging is one of the most important demographic transformations of our time.
Increasing the “health span”—the proportion of life spent in good health—is a global priority …

Four‐dimensional (4D) flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows multidirectional
quantification of blood flow in the heart and great vessels. Comparability of the technique to …

Background To validate the k-adaptive-t autocalibrating reconstruction for Cartesian
sampling (kat-ARC), an exclusive sparse reconstruction technique for four-dimensional (4D) …

Uni-dimensional Doppler echocardiography data provide the mainstay of quantative
assessment of aortic stenosis, with the transvalvular pressure drop a key indicator of …

Background Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most prevalent valvular disease in the
developed countries. Four-dimensional (4D) flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance …

Objective In this study we aimed to understand the role of interaction of the Medtronic Evolut
R transcatheter aortic valve with the ascending aorta (AA) by evaluating the performance of …

Please see the Editorial Comment by Tetsuro Sekine discussing this article. MRI is an
essential diagnostic tool in the anatomic and functional evaluation of cardiovascular …