{"title":"Vasospastic Angina: How Much Can We Know Before Provocative Testing?","authors":"Khaled M Ziada","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.125.018177","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.125.018177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e018177"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143718028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed Sayed, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Maria Alwan, Ahmad El Yaman, Asim Shaikh, William Zoghbi, Mouaz H Al-Mallah
{"title":"Growth of Multimodality Cardiac Imagers in the United States, 2013-2022.","authors":"Ahmed Sayed, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Maria Alwan, Ahmad El Yaman, Asim Shaikh, William Zoghbi, Mouaz H Al-Mallah","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017953","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017953","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017953"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wouter J van Genuchten, Jarno J Steenhorst, Gabrielle M J W van Tussenbroek, Nikki van der Velde, Lieke S Kamphuis, Irwin K M Reiss, Daphne Merkus, Willem A Helbing, Alexander Hirsch
{"title":"Differences in Pulmonary Artery Stiffness Measured by CMR in Preterm-Born Young Adults With and Without Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.","authors":"Wouter J van Genuchten, Jarno J Steenhorst, Gabrielle M J W van Tussenbroek, Nikki van der Velde, Lieke S Kamphuis, Irwin K M Reiss, Daphne Merkus, Willem A Helbing, Alexander Hirsch","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017791","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Very preterm-born infants are at risk for developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease. Nowadays, the majority of these infants reach adulthood. Very preterm-born young adults are at risk for developing pulmonary arterial (PA) hypertension later in life. An early sign of PA hypertension is increased PA stiffness. This study aims to use cardiovascular magnetic resonance to compare PA stiffness using PA relative area change (RAC) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) to identify early signs for PA hypertension in young adults born very premature, with and without BPD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty preterm-born young adults with and 20 without BPD underwent cardiovascular magnetic resonance and were compared with 20 at-term-born young adults. RAC was calculated as the percentage change between the maximal and minimal areas of the PA. PWV was calculated using a method that simultaneously compares flow and area increase in the pulmonary artery during early systole.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 57 of 60 patients, PWV and RAC measurements could be performed. Preterm-born young adults with BPD showed increased PWV compared with preterm-born young adults without BPD (median [25th-75th percentile] 2.07 m/s [1.45-3.05] versus 1.61 m/s [1.18-1.85]; <i>P</i>=0.04) and at-term-born young adults (1.35 m/s [1.08-2.23]; <i>P</i>=0.04). RAC was decreased in both preterm-born young adults with (62% [56-82]; <i>P</i><0.01) and without BPD (78% [67-93]; <i>P</i><0.01), compared with at-term-born young adults (101% [87-122]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Preterm-born young adults with BPD show increased PA stiffness as measured by PWV compared with preterm-born young adults without BPD and at-term-born young adults; RAC was decreased in both preterm-born groups compared with at-term controls. This noninvasive method of measuring PA stiffness might be a valuable tool to identify individuals at risk for early signs of PA hypertension in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017791"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12005864/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143613752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhengyang Han, Suyun Hou, Yang Chen, Zhengguang Chen, Zhenxing Sun
{"title":"Climber in the Cardiovascular System: Intravenous Leiomyomatosis.","authors":"Zhengyang Han, Suyun Hou, Yang Chen, Zhengguang Chen, Zhenxing Sun","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017305","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017305"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142715486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CT Predictors of Epicardial Coronary Spasm in Patients With Angina and Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries.","authors":"Takashi Mineo, Eisuke Usui, Yoshihisa Kanaji, Masahiro Hada, Tatsuhiro Nagamine, Hiroki Ueno, Kai Nogami, Mirei Setoguchi, Tomohiro Tahara, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Masahiro Hoshino, Tomoyo Sugiyama, Taishi Yonetsu, Tetsuo Sasano, Tsunekazu Kakuta","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017565","DOIUrl":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Recent studies have shown that vasospastic angina (VSA) is associated with myocardial bridge (MB) and pericoronary adipose tissue inflammation. We aimed to investigate the clinical and coronary computed tomography angiographic (CCTA) features that could predict VSA in patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary arteries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrospectively studied patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary arteries who underwent a spasm provocation test and CCTA within 3 months before the spasm provocation test. Pericoronary adipose tissue inflammation was evaluated using the fat attenuation index (FAI) of the proximal reference diameter and the inner 2 mm adipose tissue layer (FAI<sub>2mm</sub>) from the vessel wall. Coronary plaques were qualitatively classified as noncalcified or calcified plaques in each vessel. In addition, MB was evaluated in the left anterior descending artery.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study included 142 patients, with 55 (38.7%) diagnosed with VSA. Factors associated with VSA included male sex (74.5% versus 51.7%, <i>P</i>=0.01), smoking history (70.9% versus 52.9%, <i>P</i>=0.05), CCTA-defined MB (49.1% versus 28.7%, <i>P</i>=0.02), and FAI, especially FAI<sub>2mm</sub> in the right coronary artery-FAI<sub>2mm</sub> (-68.8 Hounsfield unit versus -74.0 Hounsfield unit, <i>P</i><0.01), as well as the presence of CCTA-defined mixed or noncalcified plaque anywhere in the coronary tree (65.5% versus 39.1%, <i>P</i><0.01). In a multivariable analysis, CCTA-defined MB (odds ratio, 2.23 [95% CI, 1.03-4.83]; <i>P</i>=0.04), right coronary artery-FAI<sub>2mm</sub> (odds ratio, 1.07 [95% CI, 1.02-1.12]; <i>P</i><0.01), and the presence of mixed or noncalcified plaque (odds ratio, 3.15 [95% CI, 1.45-6.80]; <i>P</i><0.01) were independently associated with VSA. A combination of CCTA-defined MB in the left descending artery, high right coronary artery-FAI<sub>2mm</sub> (≥-72.6 Hounsfield unit, median), and CCTA-defined mixed or noncalcified plaque in the coronary tree predicted VSA with a 75.0% probability, while the absence of all 3 factors precluded VSA with 95.6% probability.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>For patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary arteries, a prespasm provocation test using a noninvasive comprehensive assessment with CCTA may help identify those at high risk for VSA.</p>","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017565"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143669367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Santiaguel, Laura Schoeneberg, Jessie Hu, Charles Huddleston, Wilson King
{"title":"Is 4D CMR Sufficient for Preoperative Planning?","authors":"Sara Santiaguel, Laura Schoeneberg, Jessie Hu, Charles Huddleston, Wilson King","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017802"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143728990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fei Yu, Scott Dougherty, Kent Chak-Yu So, Kevin Ka-Ho Kam, Chenxu Zhao, Xinghua Shan, Alex Pui-Wai Lee
{"title":"Utility of 3D Intracardiac Echocardiography in TriClip: A Future Without Transesophageal Echocardiography?","authors":"Fei Yu, Scott Dougherty, Kent Chak-Yu So, Kevin Ka-Ho Kam, Chenxu Zhao, Xinghua Shan, Alex Pui-Wai Lee","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017738"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143691338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erica Rocco, Marco Ciacciarelli, Salvino Bilancini, Sonia Ferri, Alessandro Polidoro, Marco Rengo, Beatrice Simeone, Valentina Valenti, Sebastiano Sciarretta, Luigi Iuliano
{"title":"Recurrent Cryptogenic Ischemic Strokes in a Young Female Patient: A Case of a Bilateral Carotid Web.","authors":"Erica Rocco, Marco Ciacciarelli, Salvino Bilancini, Sonia Ferri, Alessandro Polidoro, Marco Rengo, Beatrice Simeone, Valentina Valenti, Sebastiano Sciarretta, Luigi Iuliano","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017819"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143540386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesca Sperotto, Pakaparn Kittichokechai, Andrew J Powell, Tal Geva, Naomi Gauthier, Joyce C Chang, Brian D Soriano, Nikhil Thatte
{"title":"Endomyocardial Fibrosis Mimicking a Heart Tumor and Dysplastic Tricuspid Valve in a Teenager: A Rare Cardiac Manifestation of Behçet Disease.","authors":"Francesca Sperotto, Pakaparn Kittichokechai, Andrew J Powell, Tal Geva, Naomi Gauthier, Joyce C Chang, Brian D Soriano, Nikhil Thatte","doi":"10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.124.017064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10202,"journal":{"name":"Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging","volume":" ","pages":"e017064"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143540385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}