Prognostic Role of Multiparametric Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Neo Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia.

Background: We prospectively evaluated the predictive value of multiparametric cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) for cardiovascular complications in non-transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (β-NTDT) patients who started regular transfusions in late childhood/adulthood (neo β-TDT).

Methods: We considered 180 patients (38.25 ± 11.

It's a long way to the top! Congenital venous anomalies and left isomerism limiting atrial fibrillation transcatheter ablation.

Background: Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults and it is associated with a high burden of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Catheter ablation is increasingly used to improve symptoms and prognosis in selected patients. Lower limb venous access with subsequent transseptal approach to the left atrium is the standard procedure for atrial fibrillation catheter ablation.

Multi-Parametric Cardiac Magnetic Resonance for Prediction of Heart Failure Death in Thalassemia Major.

We assessed the prognostic value of multiparametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in predicting death from heart failure (HF) in thalassemia major (TM). We considered 1398 white TM patients (30.8 ± 8.

Preoperative Tumor Texture Analysis on MRI for High-Risk Disease Prediction in Endometrial Cancer: A Hypothesis-Generating Study.

Objective: To develop and validate magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-based radiomics models for high-risk endometrial cancer (EC) prediction preoperatively, to be able to estimate deep myometrial invasion (DMI) and lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI), and to discriminate between low-risk and other categories of risk as proposed by ESGO/ESTRO/ESP (European Society of Gynaecological Oncology-European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology and European Society of Pathology) guidelines.

Methods: This retrospective study included 96 women with EC who underwent 1.5-T MR imaging before surgical staging between April 2009 and May 2019 in two referral centers divided into training (T = 73) and validation cohorts (V = 23).

Quantitative T2* MRI for bone marrow iron overload: normal reference values and assessment in thalassemia major patients.

Purpose: We evaluated the feasibility and reproducibility of bone marrow T2* values and established the lower limit of normal in a cohort of healthy subjects. We investigated the clinical correlates of bone marrow T2* values in patients with thalassemia major (TM).

Material And Methods: Thirty healthy subjects and 274 consecutive TM patients (38.