Noninvasive Assessment of Ventricular-Arterial Coupling in Heart Failure
The heart and the arterial system are anatomically and functionally linked together. Noninvasive assessment of ventricular-arterial coupling (VAC) can be done using different methods that are promising tools to assess individual hemodynamics and tailor treatment in patients with heart failure (HF). Moreover, different methods available can be appropriately used in different settings such as acute and chronic HF. VAC parameters also can add incremental value over the conventional risk factors in predicting cardiac outcome. (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - January 29, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Olga Vriz, Fadl-Elmula M. Fadl Elmula, Francesco Antonini-Canterin Source Type: research
Role of Cardiac Rehabilitation After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Patients with heart failure suffered by a complex syndrome, where the filling of the ventricle or ejection of the blood is impaired. In this setting, the exercise capacity decreases for many reasons, one of them being the insufficient oxygen transfer due to reduced cardiac output and anemia. Ventricular assist device has emerged as a durable and safe therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure. The benefits of cardiac rehabilitation in ventricular assist device patients are enormous: the first aim is to progressively reduce the physical and functional impairments of these patients, so that they will be able to resume...
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - January 29, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Concetta Di Nora, Federica Guidetti, Ugolino Livi, Francesco Antonini-Canterin Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Right Heart and Pulmonary Circulation Disorders
This article reviews the current status of the CMR, the most recent techniques, the new parameters and their clinical utility in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic management in the right heart and pulmonary circulation disorders. (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Carla Contaldi, Francesco Capuano, Luigia Romano, Brigida Ranieri, Francesco Ferrara, Gaetano Mirto, Salvatore Rega, Rosangela Cocchia, Anna Agnese Stanziola, Ellen Ostenfield, Santo Dellegrottaglie, Eduardo Bossone, Robert O. Bonow Source Type: research
Intracardiac and Vascular Hemodynamics with Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure
This article reviews emerging applications of 4-D flow MRI hemodynamic markers in HF and etiologies at risk of progressing to HF. (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Aakash N. Gupta, Michael Markl, Mohammed S.M. Elbaz Source Type: research
Measuring Myocardial Energetics with Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The heart has the highest energy demands per gram of any organ in the body and energy metabolism fuels normal contractile function. Metabolic inflexibility and impairment of myocardial energetics occur with several common cardiac diseases, including ischemia and heart failure. This review explores several decades of innovation in cardiac magnetic resonance spectroscopy modalities and their use to noninvasively identify and quantify metabolic derangements in the normal, failing, and diseased heart. The implications of this noninvasive modality for predicting significant clinical outcomes and guiding future investigation and...
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Joevin Sourdon, Sabra C. Lewsey, Michael Sch är, Robert G. Weiss Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Congenital Heart Disease
Over the past decade, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become a mainstream noninvasive imaging tool for assessment of adult and pediatric patients with congenital heart disease. It provides comprehensive anatomic and hemodynamic information that echocardiography and catheterization alone do not provide. Extracardiac anatomy can be delineated with high spatial resolution, intracardiac anatomy can be imaged in multiple planes, and functional assessment can be made accurately and with high reproducibility. In patients with heart failure, CMR provides not only reference standard evaluation of ventricular volumes and...
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Vivek Muthurangu Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Valvular Heart Disease –Related Heart Failure
This article focuses on the diagnostic and prognostic value of MRI patients with valvular causes of heart failure. (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Seth Uretsky, Steven D. Wolff Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.1 (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - November 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Subha V. Raman Tags: Preface Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
HEART FAILURE CLINICS (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
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Copyright
ELSEVIER (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
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Contributors
EDUARDO BOSSONE, MD, PhD, FCCP, FESC, FACC (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
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Contents
Subha V. Raman (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
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Forthcoming Issues
Clinical Heart Failure Scenarios: From Prevention to Overt Disease and Rehabilitation (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Quantification of Structure-Function Relationships in Heart Failure
Classification of heart failure is based on the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF): preserved EF, midrange EF, and reduced EF. There remains an unmet need for further heart failure phenotyping of ventricular structure-function relationships. Because of high spatiotemporal resolution, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) remains the reference modality for quantification of ventricular contractile function. The authors aim to highlight novel frameworks, including theranostic use of ferumoxytol, to enable more efficient evaluation of ventricular function in heart failure patients who are also frequently anemic, and to discus...
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - October 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kim-Lien Nguyen, Peng Hu, J. Paul Finn Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heritable Cardiomyopathies
This article explores the application and utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance techniques with specific focus on the major heritable cardiomyopathies. (Source: Heart Failure Clinics)
Source: Heart Failure Clinics - October 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Daniel J. Hammersley, Richard E. Jones, Lukas Mach, Brian P. Halliday, Sanjay K. Prasad Source Type: research
