Sex-specific ventricular morphology, function, and tissue characteristics in arterial hypertension: a magnetic resonance study of the Hamburg city health cohort.

Objective: To determine the influence of arterial hypertension (AHT), sex, and the interaction between both left- and right ventricular (LV, RV) morphology, function, and tissue characteristics.

Methods: The Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) is a population-based, prospective, monocentric study. 1972 individuals without a history of cardiac diseases/ interventions underwent 3 T cardiac MR imaging (CMR).

Acute impact of an endurance race on biventricular and biatrial myocardial strain in competitive male and female triathletes evaluated by feature-tracking CMR.

Objectives: Cardiac adaptation in endurance athletes is a well-known phenomenon, but the acute impact of strenuous exercise is rarely reported on. The aim of this study was to analyze the alterations in biventricular and biatrial function in triathletes after an endurance race using novel feature-tracking cardiac magnetic resonance (FT-CMR).

Methods: Fifty consecutive triathletes (45 ± 10 years; 80% men) and twenty-eight controls were prospectively recruited, and underwent 1.

Impact of chest wall deformity on cardiac function by CMR and feature-tracking strain analysis in paediatric patients with Marfan syndrome.

Objectives: To evaluate systolic cardiac dysfunction in paediatric MFS patients with chest wall deformity using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging and feature-tracking strain analysis.

Methods: Forty paediatric MFS patients (16 ± 3 years, range 8-22 years) and 20 age-matched healthy controls (16 ± 4 years, range 11-24 years) were evaluated retrospectively. Biventricular function and volumes were determined using cine sequences.