Publications by authors named "Francesca Nesta Delling"
Left ventricular fibrosis in arrhythmic mitral valve prolapse: quantification and comparison of semi-automated techniques assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance.
Annagrazia Cecere Alberto Cipriani Manuel De Lazzari Francesca Graziano Giulia Brunetti Francesca Nesta Delling
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
February 2024
Article Synopsis
- Left ventricular fibrosis is important for understanding arrhythmias in patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP), and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging identifies this using late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) techniques, which currently lack standardized protocols.
- A study with 66 MVP patients assessed LV fibrosis using different methods, including semi-automated gray-scale thresholding based on standard deviations and compared them to visual assessments.
- Among the techniques, the 5-standard deviation gray-scale thresholding showed the best correlation with visual assessments and demonstrated high reproducibility in quantifying LGE in these patients.