Heart failure–induced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality constitute a major health
problem worldwide and result from diverse pathogeneses, including coronary artery …

The left atrium (LA) has a crucial function in maintaining left ventricular filling, which is
responsible for about one-third of all cardiac filling. A growing body of evidence shows that …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and stroke are important major health problems that share common risk
factors and frequently coexist. Left atrial (LA) remodeling is an important underlying …

Aims The aim of our study was to establish normal ranges for left atrial (LA) strain and strain
rate using cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT), LA sphericity index, and …

Myocardial interstitial fibrosis is part of the advanced disease stage of most cardiovascular
pathologies. It has been characterized histologically in various disease settings from …

Objectives: This study sought to assess the association of baseline left atrial (LA) phasic
function measured with cardia magnetic resonance (CMR) and incident ischemic …

Aims We evaluated the associations of left atrial (LA) structure and function with prevalent
and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), independent of left ventricular (LV) metrics, in …

Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common human arrhythmia, is a marker of an increased risk
of embolic stroke. However, recent studies suggest that AF may not be mechanistically …

Background Abnormal left atrial (LA) function is a marker of cardiac dysfunction and adverse
cardiovascular outcome, but is difficult to assess, and hence not, routinely quantified. We …

Reference values on atrial and ventricular strain from cardiovascular magnetic resonance
(CMR) are essential in identifying patients with impaired atrial and ventricular function …