Search Tag: CMR
2020 16 Jan
During 2019, a major area of interest in cardiology was multimodality imaging and the application of artificial intelligence to imaging techniques. While conventional imaging still remains important for the assessment of cardiac structure and function, advanced echocardiography with strain imaging techniques, tissue characterisation with cardiovascular...Read more
2017 30 May
Results of the INCA-Peru study reveal the development of a faster and cheaper cardiac-imaging test that can be used in developing countries. Findings were presented at EuroCMR 2017. The new cardiac-imaging test is believed to be three times faster and costs less than one-fifth. The test also changed clinical management in nearly 33% of patients....Read more
2016 17 May
Myocardial fibrosis could be a future therapeutic target after researchers found it correlated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) referred for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). The study was presented today at EuroCMR 2016 by Dr Yaron Fridman, a cardiology fellow at the Heart and Vascular Institute,...Read more