Publications by authors named "Christoph D Utz"
Article Synopsis
- 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an advanced, non-invasive method to examine blood flow and heart function, and there is a need to understand whether different imaging sequences can produce comparable results, especially for research purposes.
- This study involved 40 participants and used two different 4D flow sequences with varying ECG gating techniques to assess measurements such as blood flow rates and heart volumes.
- The results showed that most measurements during systole and early diastole were similar across the two sequences, indicating strong agreement, while late diastolic measurements were less consistent.
Background: Induction of general anaesthesia has many potential triggers for peri-operative myocardial ischaemia including the acute disturbance of blood gases that frequently follows alterations in breathing and ventilation patterns. Free-breathing oxygenation-sensitive cardiovascular magnetic resonance (OS-CMR) imaging may provide the opportunity to continuously quantify the impact of such triggers on myocardial oxygenation.
Objective: To investigate the impact of breathing patterns that simulate induction of general anaesthesia on myocardial oxygenation in awake healthy adults using continuous OS-CMR imaging.
Objectives: Atrial function can be assessed using advancing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) post-processing methods: atrial feature tracking (FT) strain analysis or a long-axis shortening (LAS) technique. This study aimed to first compare the two FT and LAS techniques in healthy individuals and cardiovascular patients and then investigated how left (LA) and right atrial (RA) measurements are related to the severity of diastolic dysfunction or atrial fibrillation.
Methods: Sixty healthy controls and 90 cardiovascular disease patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, or atrial fibrillation, underwent CMR.