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{"title":"Automatic analysis of 3D cardiac tagged magnetic resonance images using neural networks trained on synthetic data.","authors":"Stefano Buoso, Christian T Stoeck, Sebastian Kozerke","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Three-dimensional (3D) tagged magnetic resonance (MR) imaging enables in vivo quantification of cardiac motion. While deep learning methods have been developed to analyze these images, they have been restricted to two-dimensional datasets. We present a deep learning approach specifically designed for displacement analysis of 3D cardiac tagged MR images.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed two neural networks to predict left-ventricular motion throughout the cardiac cycle. Networks were trained using synthetic 3D tagged MR images, generated by combining a biophysical left-ventricular model with an analytical MR signal model. Network performance was initially validated on synthetic data, including assessment of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) sensitivity. The networks were then retrospectively evaluated on an in vivo external validation human datasets and a in vivo porcine study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For the external validation dataset, predicted displacements deviated from manual tracking by median(IQR) values of 0.72(1.51), 0.81(1.64) and 1.12(4.17) mm in x, y and z directions, respectively. In the porcine dataset, strain measurements showed median(IQR) differences from manual annotations of 0.01(0.04), 0.01(0.06) and  - 0.01(0.18) for circumferential, longitudinal, and radial components. These strain values are within physiological ranges and demonstrate superior performance of the network approach compared to existing 3D tagged image analysis methods.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The method enables rapid analysis times of approximately 10 seconds per cardiac phase, making it suitable for large cohort investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101869"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143531477","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":"Feasibility of Strain Encoded Magnetic Resonance (SENC) at 0.55T.","authors":"John L Heyniger, Yingmin Liu, Nikita Nair, Preethi Chandrasekaran, Katherine Binzel, Vinay Kumar, Shyam S Bansal, Donel Tani, Farouk Osman, Vedat O Yildiz, Juliet Varghese, Yuchi Han, Orlando P Simonetti","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101870","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;Low-field (&lt;1.0T) wide-bore cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has the potential to improve accessibility by reducing costs and accommodating severely obese and claustrophobic patients. However, intrinsically reduced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) may affect techniques such as strain-encoded magnetic resonance (SENC), a method to quantify regional strain that may be more sensitive than global function measurements to detect abnormalities. We sought to characterize global and segmental strain derived from SENC on a wide-bore, low-field system in healthy human subjects and a porcine model of myocardial infarction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Study type: &lt;/strong&gt;Original Research METHODS: A segmented k-space, spoiled gradient echo prototype SENC sequence was implemented on a 0.55T system with an 80cm bore. A dynamic phantom and sixteen healthy volunteers (mean age 31yrs, 10 female) were scanned at 0.55T and 1.5T. Ten of the subjects were scanned twice at each field strength to evaluate scan-rescan repeatability. In volunteers, t-tests were used to compare global strain results; global and segmental strain reproducibility between field strengths and scan-rescan repeatability were assessed via Bland-Altman analysis and intraclass correlation (ICC) methods. Additionally, adjunctive SENC followed by late-gadolinium enhancement (LGE) was acquired at 0.55T eight weeks post myocardial infarction (MI) in an ongoing study of a porcine model (n=6) of non-reperfused MI. Porcine left ventricular (LV) segments were categorized based on LGE and compared to resultant segmental strain via one-way ANOVA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;Mean phantom strain showed no significant differences between field strengths (p &gt; 0.10). In volunteers mean LV global longitudinal (GLS) and circumferential strain (GCS) were -19.4% ±1.1 and -20.4% ±0.9 at 0.55T compared to -18.7 ±1.4% and -19.2% ±1.6 at 1.5T (p&gt;0.10). For both 1.5T vs 0.55T reproducibility and scan-rescan repeatability, LS proved to have better agreement than CS, and mean biases were low for both global and segmental comparisons throughout. Limits of agreement were good for global strain comparisons, but were notably wider when comparing segmental values, especially circumferential strain reproducibility and 0.55T scan-rescan repeatability. ICC analysis of pooled LV segmental strain showed good LS agreement between and within field strengths (0.78-0.89), but was fair for CS between 1.5T vs 0.55T (0.60) and CS 0.55T repeatability (0.64). In the pigs, LGE demonstrated an expected territory of infarction; segmental LS in LGE+ vs remote segments was -10.8% ±4.0 vs -16.8% ±5.1; p&lt;0.001. Segmental CS in LGE+ vs remote segments was -11.9% ±2.7 vs -14.6% ±2.7; p=0.0011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions: &lt;/strong&gt;Our results support the feasibility of SENC at 0.55T, with accurate phantom measurements, good agreement of global values in human volunteers, and correlates of functional impairment with known MI terr","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101870"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143523599","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":"DENSE-SIM: A modular pipeline for the evaluation of cine DENSE images with sub-voxel ground-truth strain.","authors":"Hugo Barbaroux, Michael Loecher, Yannick Brackenier, Karl P Kunze, Radhouene Neji, Dudley J Pennell, Daniel B Ennis, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Andrew D Scott, Alistair A Young","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Myocardial strain is a valuable biomarker for diagnosing and predicting cardiac conditions, offering additional prognostic information to traditional metrics like ejection fraction. While cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) methods, particularly cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE), are the gold standard for strain estimation, evaluation of regional strain estimation requires precise ground truth. This study introduces DENSE-Sim, an open-source simulation pipeline for generating realistic cine DENSE images with high-resolution known ground truth strain, enabling evaluation of accuracy and precision in strain analysis pipelines.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This pipeline is a modular tool designed for simulating cine DENSE images and evaluating strain estimation performance. It comprises four main modules: 1) anatomy generation, for creating end-diastolic cardiac shapes; 2) motion generation, to produce myocardial deformations over time and Lagrangian strain; 3) DENSE image generation, using Bloch equation simulations with realistic noise, spiral sampling, and phase-cycling; and 4) strain evaluation. To illustrate the pipeline, a synthetic dataset of 180 short-axis slices was created, and analysed using the commonly-used DENSEanalysis tool. The impact of the spatial regularization parameter (k) in DENSEanalysis was evaluated against the ground-truth pixel strain, to particularly assess the resulting bias and variance characteristics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Simulated strain profiles were generated with a myocardial SNR ranging from 3.9 to 17.7. For end-systolic radial strain, DENSEanalysis average signed error (ASE) in Green strain ranged from 0.04 ± 0.09 (true-calculated, mean ± std) for a typical regularization (k=0.9), to  - 0.01 ± 0.21 at low regularization (k=0.1). Circumferential strain ASE ranged from  - 0.00 ± 0.04 at k=0.9 to  - 0.01 ± 0.10 at k=0.1. This demonstrates that the circumferential strain closely matched the ground truth, while radial strain displayed more significant underestimations, particularly near the endocardium. A lower regularization parameter from 0.3 to 0.6 depending on the myocardial SNR, would be more appropriate to estimate the radial strain, as a compromise between noise compensation and global strain accuracy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Generating realistic cine DENSE images with high-resolution ground-truth strain and myocardial segmentation enables accurate evaluation of strain analysis tools, while reproducing key in vivo acquisition features, and will facilitate the future development of deep-learning models for myocardial strain analysis, enhancing clinical CMR workflows.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101866"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143482942","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":"The future of MRI in thoracic aortopathy: blueprint for the paradigm shift to improve management.","authors":"James Nadel, José Rodríguez-Palomares, Alkystis Phinikaridou, Claudia Prieto, Pier-Giorgio Masci, René Botnar","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101865","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thoracic aortopathies result in aneurysmal expansion of the aorta that can lead to rapidly fatal aortic dissection or rupture. Despite the availability of abundant non-invasive imaging tools, the greatest contemporary challenge in the management of thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is the lack of reliable metrics for risk stratification, with absolute aortic diameter, growth rate and syndromic factors remaining the primary determinants by which prophylactic surgical intervention is adjudged. Advanced MRI techniques present as a potential key to unlocking insights into TAA that could guide disease surveillance and surgical intervention. MRI has the capacity to encapsulate the aorta as a complex biomechanical structure, permitting the determination of aortic volume, morphology, composition, distensibility and fluid dynamics in a time-efficient manner. Nevertheless, current standard-of-care imaging protocols do not harness its full capacity. This state-of-the-art review explores the emerging role of MRI in the assessment of TAA and presents a blueprint for the required paradigm shift away from aortic size as the sole metric for risk stratifying TAA.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101865"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143476487","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":"Left Ventricle Myocardial Remodeling Following Septal Myectomy in Patients with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Guanyu Lu, Liqi Cao, Jiehao Ou, Xinyi Luo, Wei Zhu, Zhicheng Du, Jian Liu, Yuelong Yang, Xinyue Zhang, Peijian Wei, Hongxiang Wu, Huiming Guo, Hui Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Left ventricular (LV) reverse myocardial remodeling occurs following septal myectomy in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), but it remains unclear whether diffuse fibrosis is reversible during this period. Extracellular volume fraction (ECV) and indexed extracellular volume (iECV) are important surrogate markers of diffuse myocardial fibrosis. This study aimed to investigate whether diffuse myocardial fibrosis in HOCM can regress after myectomy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective cohort study was conducted among patients with HOCM. All subjects underwent clinical assessment (clinical history, 6-min walk test, biochemical analysis), echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) preoperatively and 6 months after septal myectomy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 43 patients (52±14 years, 23 female) were included in the analysis. At 6 months post-myectomy, there were significant within-person decreases in LV mass index (101.0[81.5-121.0] to 85.8[66.7-100.0] g/m²; p < 0.001), indexed cell volume (68.6[53.2-82.6] mL/m² to 54.0[4².6-62.0] mL/m²; p < 0.001) and iECV (26.5[22.4-30.1] mL/m² to 21.2[18.7-26.4] mL/m²; p < 0.001). Conversely, ECV (28.2±3.3% to 30.2±2.8%; p < 0.001) and late gadolinium enhancement mass (4.5[0.2-8.2] g to 8.7[2.1-12.8] g; p < 0.001) increased. These changes were accompanied by improvement of New York Heart Association functional class, 6-min walk test results, N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Six months after septal myectomy, both cellular hypertrophy and diffuse fibrosis are reversible in HOCM, while focal fibrosis does not regress. These are accompanied by improvement of exercise parameters and laboratory biomarkers, unfolding the plastic nature of diffuse fibrosis in HOCM and its potential as a therapeutic target.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101864"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143458134","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":"How low can we go? The effect of acquisition duration on cardiac volume and function measurements in free-running cardiac and respiratory motion-resolved 5D whole-heart cine MRI at 1.5T.","authors":"Robert J Holtackers, Augustin C Ogier, Ludovica Romanin, Estelle Tenisch, Isabel Montón Quesada, Ruud B van Heeswijk, Christopher W Roy, Jérôme Yerly, Milan Prsa, Matthias Stuber","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for assessing cardiac volumes and function using 2D breath-held cine imaging. This technique, however, requires a reliable ECG signal, repetitive breath-holds, and the time-consuming and proficiency-demanding planning of cardiac views. Recently, a free-running framework has been developed for cardiac and respiratory motion-resolved 5D whole-heart imaging without the need for an ECG signal, repetitive breath-holds, and meticulous plan scanning. In this study, we investigate the impact of acquisition time on cardiac volumetric and functional measurements, when using free-running imaging, compared to reference standard 2D cine imaging.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Sixteen healthy adult volunteers underwent CMR at 1.5T, including standard 2D breath-held cine imaging and free-running imaging using acquisition durations ranging from 1 to 6min in randomized order. All datasets were anonymized and analysed for left-ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes, as well as ejection fraction. In a subset of data, intra- and inter-observer agreement was assessed. In addition, image quality and observer confidence were scored using a 4-point Likert scale. Finally, acquisition efficiency was reported for both imaging techniques, which was defined as the time required for data sampling divided by the total scan time.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No significant differences in left-ventricular EDV and ESV were found between free-running imaging for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6minutes and standard 2D breath-held cine imaging. Biases in EDV ranged from -2.4 to -7.4mL, while biases in ESV ranged from -3.8 to 2.1mL. No significant differences in ejection fraction were found between free-running imaging of any acquisition duration and standard 2D breath-held cine imaging. Biases in ejection fraction ranged from -2.8% to 0.94%. Both image quality and observer confidence in free-running imaging improved when the acquisition duration increased. However, they were always lower than standard 2D breath-held cine imaging. Acquisition efficiency improved from 13% for standard 2D cine imaging to 50% or higher for free-running imaging.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Free-running CMR with an acquisition duration as short as one minute can provide left-ventricular cardiac volumes and ejection fraction comparable to standard 2D breath-held cine imaging, albeit at the expense of both image quality and observer confidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101863"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143433233","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":"Hypothermia as an adjunctive therapy to percutaneous intervention after ST-elevation myocardial infarction-Effects on regional myocardial contractility.","authors":"Lucas de Mello Queiroz, Rafael Almeida Fonseca, Luis Augusto Palma Dallan, Thatiane Facholi Polastri, Ludhmila Abrahao Hajjar, Jose Carlos Nicolau, Roberto Kalil Filho, Karl B Kern, Sergio Timerman, Carlos E Rochitte","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101850","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101850","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The effects of endovascular therapeutic hypothermia (ETH) in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) regional contractility are unknown, and its impact on segmental contractility has still not been evaluated. We sought to evaluate segmental myocardial strain after ETH adjuvant to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in STEMI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We included patients who underwent 1.5T cardiovascular magnetic resonance exams 5 and 30 days after acute anterior or inferior STEMI in a previous randomized trial. Left ventricle (LV) strain was evaluated on infarcted, adjacent, and remote myocardium. Segmental circumferential (CS) and radial strains (RS) were measured using feature-tracking imaging. Repeated measures of analysis of variance were used for comparisons within time and treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty patients were divided into hypothermia (ETH, n = 29) and control (n = 11) groups, with 5210 LV segments. In ETH infarcted areas, RS (11.2 ± 16 vs 14.8 ± 15.2, p = 0.001) and CS (-5.4 ± 11.1 vs -8 ± 11.1, p = 0.001) showed recovery from 5-30 days compared to controls (11.4 ± 14 vs 13.1 ± 1 6.8, p = 0.09; -6.5 ± 10.6 vs -6.4 ± 12.5, p = 0.94). In control remote areas, RS (28 ± 18 vs 31.7 ± 18.5, p = 0.001) and CS (-15.5 ± 10.7 vs -17.1 ± 9, p = 0.001) improved from 5-30 days compared to ETH (28.6 ± 18.6 vs 29 ± 20, p = 0.44; -15.2 ± 10.4 vs -15.3 ± 10.6, p = 0.82). Transmural infarcted areas in ETH improved RS (11.8 ± 13.2 vs 8.17 ± 14.7, p = 0.001) and CS (-6.1 ± 10.9 vs.-3.1 ± 11.3, p = 0.001) compared to controls, with better contractility at 30 days.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In anterior or inferior STEMI patients, ETH adjuvant to PCI is associated with significant improvement in RS and CS of infarcted areas, including transmural segments, but not in remote area. This might further increase our pathophysiological knowledge on early LV remodeling and ultimately suggest potential clinical value.</p><p><strong>Availability of data and materials: </strong>The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101850"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143425410","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":"Doppler Ultrasound Gating for Adult Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Initial Experience.","authors":"Lucia D Beissel, Fabian Kording, Christian Ruprecht, Alexander Isaak, Thomas M Vollbrecht, Claus C Pieper, Daniel Kuetting, Abdulamir Ali, Pia Wölfl, Christopher Hart, Julian A Luetkens","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101862","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Despite of being a common gating method for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), electrocardiogram (ECG) gating has its disadvantages and new gating strategies are desirable. An alternative CMR gating method is doppler ultrasound (DUS) gating, which detects blood flow and ventricular movement. The aim of this study was to prove the feasibility of DUS gating as a novel CMR gating method in a clinical patient population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this prospective study, patients underwent clinically indicated CMR. Balanced steady-state free precession two-dimensional (2D) cine sequences in short axis and 4-chamber views were acquired using ECG and DUS gating. DUS and ECG signal were recorded simultaneously. Time difference between R wave and DUS systolic trigger detection was defined as trigger delay, the standard deviation of trigger delays as trigger jitter. Left and right ventricular parameters were assessed: Left and right ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF, RVEF) and left and right ventricular end-diastolic volume index (LVEDVI, RVEDVI). Overall image quality was assessed using a 5-point Likert scale (5=excellent to 1=non-diagnostic). For statistical analysis, paired t-test, Wilcoxon test, Pearson Correlation and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were employed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>21 patients (7 female) were included (age: 45.4±19.7 years; body mass index: 27.6±5.5kg/m²). DUS mean trigger delay was 128±28ms. DUS mean trigger jitter was 23±13ms. Overall image quality showed no difference between ECG and DUS gating (e.g., short axis: 5 [IQR 3-5] vs. 4 [IQR 3.5-5]; P=0.21). Quantitative analysis revealed no differences between ECG and DUS gating: LVEF (53.2±9.2% vs. 52.3±9.1%; P=0.18; ICC 0.97 [95% confidence interval [CI] 0.93-0.99]), LVEDVI (84.5±15.8ml/m² vs. 83.3±15.8ml/m²; P=0.06; ICC 0.99 [95% CI 0.98-1.00]), RVEF (52.8±8.0% vs. 51.6±7.2%; P=0.06; ICC 0.96 [95% CI 0.89-0.99]) and RVEDVI (80.8±17.6ml/m² vs. 80.9±16.5ml/m²; P=0.91; ICC 0.98 [95% CI 0.96-0.99]). In one patient with a prominent lingula of the lung image quality non-diagnostic with DUS gating.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CMR gating with DUS is feasible and can offer an equivalent performance to ECG regarding image quality and quantitative parameter assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101862"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143425472","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":"Late Gadolinium-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for Predicting Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling in Dilated Cardiomyopathy A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Yaqiong Zhou, Yuanwei Xu, Yangjie Li, Chuang Huang, Yucheng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is currently a lack of evidence regarding the significance of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in predicting left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling (RR) in pooled data. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of the presence and extent of LGE for LVRR in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Systematic searches were conducted in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov from database inception to May 21, 2024. We estimated the overall effect sizes using the Mantel-Haenszel random-effects model. Subgroup analyses, meta-regression, and sensitivity analyses were performed to investigate potential sources of heterogeneity among studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1141 patients (LGE prevalence: 49.7%) from 13 studies (five prospective and eight retrospective) were included. After a median follow-up period of 15 months, 43.5% of patients achieved LVRR. The presence of LGE predicted LVRR with a pooled odds ratio (OR) of 0.23 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.14-0.38, P<0.01) with significant heterogeneity (I² = 68%). The pooled OR for LVRR per percent increase in the extent of LGE was 0.94 (95% CI: 0.90-0.98, P<0.01) with low heterogeneity (I² = 19%). Subgroup analysis based on follow-up duration demonstrated that the presence of LGE was more strongly inversely associated with LVRR in <12 months follow-up (OR 0.06, 95% CI: 0.03-0.13, P<0.01) compared to ≥ 12 months follow-up (OR 0.36, 95% CI: 0.24-0.54, P<0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The presence and increase extent of LGE on CMR significantly diminish LVRR achievement in DCM patients, particularly in short-term follow-up (<12 months).</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101860"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143425413","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":"Diagnostic value of bone scintigraphy versus cardiovascular magnetic resonance in cardiac amyloidosis.","authors":"Josefin Obergassel, Michael Bietenbeck, Nuriye Akyol, Volker Vehof, Claudia Meier, Maria Theofanidou, Philipp Stalling, Ali Yilmaz","doi":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Accurate diagnosis of transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) and its differentiation from light-chain (AL) cardiac amyloidosis (CA) cases (AL-CM) are of paramount importance. Surprisingly, comparative imaging data based on concurrent cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and bone scintigraphy in the same patients with biopsy-proven diagnosis of CA are still rare.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a real-world retrospective single-center study based on a local clinical care pipeline and we carefully analyzed clinical, laboratory, CMR, and bone scintigraphy data (and if necessary additional endomyocardial biopsy [EMB] data) in patients with suspected CA. As a major inclusion criterion, we only looked at those patients who underwent both a CMR study and a bone scintigraphy-with a clear-cut imaging finding detected by at least one imaging method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>One hundred twenty three patients in whom the final diagnosis was obtained either non-invasively based on combined findings from bone scintigraphy and monoclonal protein studies or invasively based on additional EMB findings were included. A positive CMR result indicating the presence of CA was found in 121 patients-suggesting a CMR sensitivity of 98.4% for the diagnosis of any CA. Bone scintigraphy identified 18 patients with low to moderate uptake (Perugini score = 0-1) and 105 patients with high uptake (Perugini score ≥2)-resulting in a sensitivity for bone scintigraphy of 85.4% for the diagnosis of any CA. There was an agreement (\"diagnostic match\") between CMR and bone scintigraphy results in 103 patients (84%) of the total study cohort, while a discrepancy (\"diagnostic mismatch\") was observed in 20 patients (16%). In 18 out of these 20 diagnostic mismatch cases, CMR correctly diagnosed the presence of CA despite a negative or inconclusive result on bone scintigraphy (8 with AL-CM, 8 with ATTR-CM, and 2 with EMB-proven but unspecified CA).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CMR shows a substantially higher diagnostic yield for the diagnosis of CA compared to bone scintigraphy, if a real-world cohort of patients comprising different subtypes of CA is looked at, since CMR does not only detect ATTR-CM but also depicts other CA subtypes such as AL. In case of a clear-cut positive CMR result unequivocally indicative of CA, there is no incremental diagnostic value of an additionally performed bone scintigraphy.</p>","PeriodicalId":15221,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance","volume":" ","pages":"101859"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143425469","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}