Publications by authors named "A Camporeale"
Background: Cardiac involvement represents the main cause of death in patients with Fabry disease (FD). Echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) have an established diagnostic role, but their prognostic value remains unresolved. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to assess the prognostic implications of imaging parameters in FD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold-standard to estimate right ventricular (RV) volumes, which are key for clinical management of patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF). Semi-automated threshold-based methods (SAT) have been proposed for CMR post-processing as alternatives to fully manual standard tracing. We investigated the impact of SAT on RV analysis using different thresholds in rTOF patients.
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- Fabry Disease cardiomyopathy (FDc) and sarcomeric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) show similar hypertrophic heart features, particularly anomalies of the mitral valve apparatus (AMVA), which were assessed in this study for better diagnosis and understanding of disease progression.
- The study involved 80 Fabry patients and 40 HCM patients, utilizing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to measure various AMVA and compare groups with similar levels of left ventricular hypertrophy.
- Results indicated that Fabry patients exhibited greater hypertrophy of papillary muscles compared to HCM patients, alongside significant anomalies like apical displacement, supporting the idea that AMVA may serve as early indicators in Fabry disease. *
cardiomyopathy is a rare genetic disorder that manifests early in life with an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. It harbors left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), ventricular pre-excitation and progressively worsening conduction system defects. Its estimated prevalence among patients with LVH ranges from 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiastolic vortex ring (VR) plays a key role in the blood-pumping function exerted by the left ventricle (LV), with altered VR structures being associated with LV dysfunction. Herein, we sought to characterize the VR diastolic alterations in ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) patients with systo-diastolic LV dysfunction, as compared to healthy controls, in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of LV diastolic function. 4D Flow MRI data were acquired in ICM patients (n = 15) and healthy controls (n = 15).
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