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Open AccessAssessment of subclinical LV myocardial dysfunction in T2DM patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most prevalent complication of diabetes, and has been demonstrated to be independently associated with cardiovascular events and mortality. This aim of this study wa...
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Open AccessGlycemic control and clinical outcomes in diabetic patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: insight from ventricular remodeling using cardiac MRI
Glycemic control, as measured by glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), is an important biomarker to evaluate diabetes severity and is believed to be associated with heart failure development. Type 2 diabetes mellit...
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Open AccessThe worsening effect of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation on left ventricular function and deformation in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: a 3.0 T cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking study
Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular death, overall mortality and heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The present study investigated the a...
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Open AccessReduced thoracic skeletal muscle size is associated with adverse outcomes in diabetes patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: quantitative analysis of sarcopenia by using cardiac MRI
Sarcopenia is frequently found in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and is associated with reduced exercise capacity, poor quality of life and adverse outcomes. Recent evidence...
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Open AccessEffect of concomitant atrial septal defect on left ventricular function in adult patients with unrepaired Ebstein’s anomaly: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging study
Due to the heterogeneity of anatomic anomalies in Ebstein’s anomaly (EA), particularly in the subset of patients with atrial septal defect (ASD), hemodynamic changes, which ultimately cause left ventricular (L...
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Open AccessEffects of diabetes mellitus on left ventricular function and deformation in patients with restrictive cardiomyopathies: a 3.0T CMR feature tracking study
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common metabolic disease worldwide and a major risk factor for adverse cardiovascular events, while the additive effects of DM on left ventricular (LV) deformation in the res...
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Open AccessAssessment of left atrioventricular coupling and left atrial function impairment in diabetes with and without hypertension using CMR feature tracking
The study was designed to assess the effect of co-occurrence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension on the deterioration of left atrioventricular coupling index (LACI) and left atrial (LA) function in comp...
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Open AccessSubclinical left ventricular deformation and microvascular dysfunction in T2DM patients with and without peripheral neuropathy: assessed by 3.0 T cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) has been shown to be independently associated with cardiovascular events and mortality. This study aimed to evaluate changes in left ventricular (LV) microvascular perfusio...
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Open AccessAssociation of insulin use with LV remodeling and clinical outcomes in diabetic patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction: assessed by cardiac MRI
Insulin is commonly used in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) to achieve glycemic control. However, recent evidence showed that insulin use is associated with poor outcomes in the context of heart failure (HF). ...
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Open AccessLeft atrioventricular interaction and impaired left atrial phasic function in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with or without anemia: a cardiac magnetic resonance study
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and anemia are related to some cardiovascular diseases and can predict poor outcomes. Both of them can damage the heart in their own ways, but their combined effects have not be...
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Open AccessThe right ventricular dysfunction and ventricular interdependence in patients with DM: assessment using cardiac MR feature tracking
To investigate the difference of right ventricular (RV) structural and functional alteration in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and the ventricula...
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Open AccessAssociation of diabetes mellitus and glycemic control with left ventricular function and deformation in patients after acute myocardial infarction: a 3 T cardiac magnetic resonance study
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is considered a major risk factor for myocardial infarction (MI), and MI patients with DM have a poor prognosis. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate the additive effects of DM on LV def...
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Open AccessThe worsening effect of anemia on left ventricular function and global strain in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: a 3.0 T CMR feature tracking study
To explore the additive effects of anemia on left ventricular (LV) global strains in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with or without anemia via cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) feature tracking t...
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Open AccessUnsupervised machine learning based on clinical factors for the detection of coronary artery atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Coronary atherosclerosis can lead to serious cardiovascular events. In type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients, the effects of clinical factors on coronary atherosclerosis have not been fully elucidated. We used a clu...
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Open AccessBeyond pulmonary vein isolation for persistent atrial fibrillation: sequential high-resolution map** to guide ablation
We aimed to evaluate whether outcomes with ablation in persistent (PsAF) and long-standing persistent (LsPsAF) AF can be improved beyond what can be achieved with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) alone, using in...
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Open AccessQuantitative assessment of left ventricular myocardial involvement in patients with connective tissue disease: a 3.0T contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance study
The aim of this study was to evaluate left ventricular (LV) myocardial involvement in connective tissue disease (CTD) patients using multiparemetric imaging derived from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR)...
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Open AccessThe effect of LDL-C status on the association between increased coronary artery calcium score and compositional plaque volume progression in statins-treated diabetic patients: evaluated using serial coronary CTAs
In statins-treated diabetic mellitus (DM) patients, longitudinal coronary CTA (CCTA) evidence is scarce regarding the relationship between coronary Agatston artery calcification scores (CACs) and coronary plaq...
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Open AccessImpact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on left ventricular deformation in non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy patients assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases the risk of worse long-term outcomes in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM). However, the additive effects of T2DM on left ventricular (LV) funct...
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Open AccessAdditive effect of aortic regurgitation degree on left ventricular strain in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus evaluated via cardiac magnetic resonance tissue tracking
Type 2 diabetes mellitus causes left ventricular (LV) remodeling and increases the risk of aortic regurgitation (AR), which causes further heart damage. This study aimed to investigate whether AR aggravates LV...
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Open AccessThe adverse impact of coronary artery disease on left ventricle systolic and diastolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a 3.0T CMR study
Coronary artery disease (CAD) confers considerable morbidity and mortality in diabetes. However, the role of CAD in additive effect of left ventricular (LV) function has rarely been explored in type 2 diabetes...