Application of Cardiac Imaging in Heart Disease
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 6810
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heart disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
The technological improvements in diagnostic imaging modalities have significantly changed and increased the applications and clinical indications of cardiac imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of heart pathologies.
Echocardiography, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, and nuclear medicine are consolidated diagnostic modalities, and the introduction of dual-source and dual energy CT, photon-counting CT, new MRI sequences and hybrid nuclear imaging has substantially improved the detection and evaluation of cardiac disease.
Moreover, the possibility to perform stress–rest imaging exams have enlarged the application of cardiac imaging in ischemic heart disease.
In addition, invasive imaging methods such as coronary angiography, transcatheter electrophysiological mapping and cardiac allow not only allow the diagnosis but also the therapeutic approach to ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.
Finally, the introduction of artificial intelligence into clinical practice is modifying the diagnostic possibilities by assisting specialists in the detection and interpretation of images, improving the diagnostic performance.
For all of these reasons, it is necessary for specialists involved in the treatment of heart disease to remain constantly updated on the applications, clinical indications, and technological advances of cardiac imaging.
Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to present a wide range of scientific papers including original articles, case reports, case series and reviews about the actual cardiac imaging modalities, the latest developments, their actual and future applications in the heart disease and interesting clinical cases of integrated use of the cardiac imaging modalities.
Dr. Marco Fogante
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heart disease
- cardiac disease
- echocardiography
- cardiac CT
- cardiac MRI
- cardiac nuclear imaging
- stress–rest myocardial perfusion
- cardiac electrophysiology
- photon counting
- artificial intelligence
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