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Viviana Maestrini
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Open AccessStrategy for an early simultaneous introduction of four-pillars of heart failure therapy: results from a single center experience
The 2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines recommend the use of four different classes of drugs for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): beta blockers (BB), sodium-glucose cotran...
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Open AccessAdvanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Takotsubo Syndrome: Update on Feature Tracking and Tissue Map**
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an intriguing clinical entity characterized by transient myocardial dysfunction. The precise pathophysiological mechanism of TTS is still unknown, but recent evidence suggests a cen...
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Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Master Paralympic Athletes, a High-Risk Undertreated Population: A Cross-Sectional Longitudinal Study
Recently, European Society of Cardiology (ESC) validated a prediction model to estimate 10-year fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease risk (CVDR) in individuals (aged 40–60 years) without previous cardiov...
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The role of cardiac magnetic resonance in sports cardiology: results from a large cohort of athletes
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) provides information on morpho-functional abnormalities and myocardial tissue characterisation. Appropriate indications for CMR in athletes are uncertain.
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Lack of cardiac remodelling in elite endurance athletes: an unexpected and not so rare finding
Endurance elite athletes are expected to present a cardiac remodelling, characterized by eccentric hypertrophy (EH), may be associated with higher sportive performances. However, not all can present a cardiac ...
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Open AccessTelemedicine: an Effective and Low-Cost Lesson From the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Management of Heart Failure Patients
The purpose of this review is to explore the benefits and controversies that telemedicine (TM), applied to patients with heart failure (HF), can provide in terms of diagnosis, therapeutic management, and progn...
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Open AccessMedical Management of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
The purpose of this review is to overview the most relevant and recent knowledge regarding medical management in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
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Open AccessSodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and heart failure: the best timing for the right patient
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), initially born as anti-diabetic drugs, have shown many beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, in particular against heart failure (HF). HF is a com...
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Determinants of LV mass in athletes: the impact of sport, constitutional traits and cardiovascular risk factors
Whether cardiovascular (CV) risk factors might impact Left Ventricular (LV) mass in athletes is unknown.
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Cardiac Remodeling Versus Cardiomyopathies in Athletes
Prolonged and intensive training results in morphological and functional remodeling of cardiac chambers. Several determinants affect the remodeling including sport disciplines and the volume and intensity of t...
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Open AccessPrecision measurement of cardiac structure and function in cardiovascular magnetic resonance using machine learning
Measurement of cardiac structure and function from images (e.g. volumes, mass and derived parameters such as left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction [LVEF]) guides care for millions. This is best assessed usin...
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Open AccessT2-map** increase is the prevalent imaging biomarker of myocardial involvement in active COVID-19: a Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance study
Early detection of myocardial involvement can be relevant in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients to timely target symptomatic treatment and decrease the occurrence of the cardiac sequelae of the infec...
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Open AccessMyocardial contractility recovery following acute pressure unloading after transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) in patients with severe aortic stenosis and different left ventricular geometry: a multilayer longitudinal strain echocardiographicanalysis
Aim of the present study was to describe the left ventricular longitudinal strain (LS) in all myocardial layers in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS), preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)...
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Open AccessAppropriate use criteria for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR): SIC—SIRM position paper part 1 (ischemic and congenital heart diseases, cardio-oncology, cardiac masses and heart transplant)
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has emerged as new mainstream technique for the evaluation of patients with cardiac diseases, providing unique information to support clinical decision-making. This document ha...
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Open AccessCardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Sport Cardiology: a Growing Role in Clinical Dilemmas
Exercise training induces morphological and functional cardiovascular adaptation known as the “athlete’s heart” with changes including dilatation, hypertrophy, and increased stroke volume. These changes may ov...
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CMR in Hypertrophic Cardiac Conditions—an Update
Myocardial left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH) is a common phenotype associated to increased morbidity and mortality. Beyond an accurate LV mass quantification, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Structural and myocardial dysfunction in heart failure beyond ejection fraction
The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.
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Open AccessStructural and myocardial dysfunction in heart failure beyond ejection fraction
Heart failure is a multifaceted syndrome addressing for a high rate of death among the general population. The common approach to this disease has been always based on the evaluation of the left ventricular ej...
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Open AccessHematocrit, iron and HDL-cholesterol explain 90% of variation in native blood T1
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Open AccessCMR findings in high endurance veteran athletes - a 247 subject study
