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Open AccessImage resampling and discretization effect on the estimate of myocardial radiomic features from T1 and T2 map** in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Radiomics is emerging as a promising and useful tool in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging applications. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate, for the first time, the effect of image...
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Open AccessIncidence of Pericardial Effusion in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Immunotherapy
Cardiovascular toxicity of immunotherapy represents an underreported but potentially fatal side effect. A relatively high incidence of pericardial disease has been noticed in patients with non-small cell lung ...
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T1 and T2 map** in the identification of acute myocardial injury in patients with NSTEMI
To test T1 and T2 map** in the assessment of acute myocardial injury in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), evaluated before revascularization.
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Myocardial T1 and T2 map** in diastolic and systolic phase
The aim of this study was to evaluate the regional (i.e. myocardial segments) variability as well as the overall image quality of cardiac T1 and T2 maps obtained in diastole and in systole. In 22 healthy subje...
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Evaluation of Brugada syndrome by cardiac magnetic resonance
Brugada syndrome (BrS) has been originally considered to occur in structural normal hearts. However recent pathological and imaging data suggest that structural and functional changes may be present in this sy...
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Screening and High CV Risk Patients
Sudden death, myocardial infarction and heart failure contribute significantly to cardiovascular mortality in the general population and are a common manifestation of coronary artery disease [1]. Acute coronary s...
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Magnetic resonance (MR) has become a consolidated imaging modality in the field of cardiology. The technique is characterized by enormous operative versatility ranging from pure morphology to myocardial tissue...
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Chronic (Stable) Coronary Artery Disease
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) can be considered stable or chronic when obstructive atherosclerosis of the coronary vessels develops slowly and progressively without sudden and unexpected pathologic and clinica...
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Physiology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Circulation
The heart supplies blood to itself through two coronary arteries that support the coronary circulation. Both arteries lie outside of the heart muscle running along the atrioventricular groove and branch off in...
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Left and Right Ventricular Function, Contractility, Geometry, and Mass
The human heart lies within the central area of the thoracic cavity, in the mediastinal space. Its weight and size varies depending on age, sex, height, and nutritional status and it corresponds approximately ...
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Indicazioni cliniche alla RMC e criteri di appropriatezza
La risonanza magnetica cardiaca (RMC) trova un crescente significativo ruolo nella clinica cardiologica grazie alle molteplici possibilità diagnostiche evidenziate nel corso degli anni. Per molte condizioni cl...
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Coronary calcium score as gatekeeper for 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography in patients with chest pain: per-segment and per-patient analysis
We sought to investigate the performance of 64-slice CT in symptomatic patients with different coronary calcium scores. Two hundred patients undergoing 64-slice CT coronary angiography for suspected coronary a...
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Follow-up of internal mammary artery stent with 64-slice CT
We present a case of 81-year-old woman complaining chest pain after minimal efforts who underwent multiple coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) during the last 15 years. A significant in-stent re-stenosis was...
